Identifying determinants of teachers' judgment (in)accuracy regarding students' school-related motivations using a Bayesian cross-classified multi-level model

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Authors

  • Anna Katharina Praetorius
  • Tobias Koch
  • Annette Scheunpflug
  • Horst Zeinz
  • Markus Dresel

Teachers differ considerably in their judgment accuracy of motivational student characteristics. Thus far, only few investigations have focused on explaining these differences. In this study, we investigated to what extent groups of characteristics (i.e., student, information, teacher, and class characteristics) derived from the Realistic Accuracy Model (Funder, 1995) are relevant for explaining differences in teachers' judgment accuracy regarding students' school-related self-concept and autonomous motivation. Data from 1239 students and 341 teachers were analyzed using a Bayesian cross-classified multi-level modeling approach. Our analyses showed that variance in teacher judgments is largely due to variation at the level of judgments and less due to variation in the slope (i.e., the accuracy of teacher judgments). Teachers' judgment accuracy varied to a comparable degree across teachers and classes. Significant determinants for these differences were teachers' subject and students' grade point average.

Original languageEnglish
JournalLearning and Instruction
Volume52
Pages (from-to)148 - 160
Number of pages13
ISSN0959-4752
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.12.2017

    Research areas

  • Cross-classification, Judgment accuracy, Motivation, Teacher judgments, Variance sources
  • Educational science

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