Accessibility statement

Judging students' motivational characteristics: How good are teachers at it and why are some teachers so misguided?

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 1.00PM to 2.00pm

Speaker(s): Anna Praetorius, University of Augsburg, Germany (Visitor to Psychology in Education Research Centre)

Judging students’ motivation accurately is assumed to be a necessary condition for adaptive classroom instruction. Previous studies found moderate correlations between teachers’ judgements and, for example, the self-reported self-concepts of students. Within the talk, results of two studies will be reported. Study 1 compared the accuracy of teachers’ judgements with the accuracy of people watching a mere 30 s video of students and judging them afterwards. Striking is that the groups did not differ in their judgement accuracy. Study 2 investigated the reasons for the low accuracies of teachers rating motivational student characteristics. The results showed that individual configurations between teachers and students are more relevant for teachers’ judgement inaccuracy than pure teacher characteristics.

Location: A/D017, Science Education Building, Alcuin D Block