Using Brunswik’s lens model to identify and reduce teacher biases in the informal assessment of student motivation

Beck, J., Dutke, S., & Utesch, T.

Abstract

In educational sciences, it is well-known that teachers are rather good in judging their students’ performance informally (e.g., r = .63, Südkamp et al., 2012). However, teachers often judge other people’s cognitive-emotional characteristics less accurately than their learning performance and competence. For example, students’ motivation is judged with an accuracy ranging between .14 < r