Modelling teacher's judgement of giftedness: A methodological inquiry of biased judgment
Modelling teacher's judgement of giftedness: A methodological inquiry of biased judgment
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模拟教师对天赋的判断:对偏见判断的方法论探究
DOI:
10.1080/1359813970080203
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发表时间:
1997
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
E. Hany
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作者:
E. Hany
Previous empirical studies concerning the quality of teacher judgment in the domain of identifying gifted children have provided equivocal results. In this paper the process of identifying gifted children performed by teachers is conceptualised as a subjective decision strategy. Teachers' decisions are assumed to be based on students' characteristics that constitute the teachers' probabilistic concept of giftedness. Using a sample of 58 teachers experienced in the education of gifted school students, their preferences of relevant characteristics of giftedness for diagnostic use are compared to normative models and biased tendencies of how to use those characteristics diagnostically. The teachers' subjective concept of giftedness is characterised by aspects of cognitive competence and motivational preparedness for learning. The teachers' diagnostic strategies follow to some extent the normative Bayesian model of weighting evidence but are substantially influenced by representation bias and by forms of conf...