Expert and novice teachers do not differ significantly in overall judgment accuracy of five student characteristic profiles, though experts judge inconsistent profiles more accurately¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q3 · i2 medium
Currency · newest study 2021 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i2 Experts judged the inconsistent profiles of underestimating, overestimating, and uninterested students more accurately than novices. → Seidel 2021

Evidence¶

Seidel 2021¶

Seidel, T., Schnitzler, K., Kosel, C., Stürmer, K., & Holzberger, D. (2021). Student Characteristics in the Eyes of Teachers: Differences Between Novice and Expert Teachers in Judgment Accuracy, Observed Behavioral Cues, and Gaze. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09532-2

q3 · i2 · associational · r1

Per-profile unpaired t tests in the same 41-participant study showed experts significantly more accurate than novices on all three inconsistent profiles, with printed effects d = − 0.73, d = − 1.04, and d = − 0.68. Differences on the strong and struggling profiles were not significant.

"experts did show higher judgment accuracy for the underestimating student, t(39) = 2.03, p =. 0 4 8 ,d = − 0.73, the uninterested student, t(39) = −2.19, p =. 0 3 5 , d = − 1.04, and the overestimating student, t(39) = 2.04, p =. 0 4 6 ,d = − 0.68."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Expert teachers fixate more on struggling, underestimating, and uninterested students during individual seatwork, while novices show longer fixations on strong and overestimating students — related
• Experienced teachers diagnose underestimating, overestimating, and uninterested student profiles more accurately than novices, with partial eye-tracking support — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Experienced teachers can deduce student engagement profiles from visual observation, while beginning teachers struggle — a broader claim this one bears on
• Judgment accuracy varies across student characteristic profiles: struggling and uninterested profiles are diagnosed more accurately than strong, underestimating, and overestimating profiles — related
• Both novice and expert teachers state valid behavioral cues when inferring student profiles, but novices rely more on salient cues such as hand raising and quality of answers — related
• Expert teachers show expertise-related eye movement patterns in some classroom tasks but not others, indicating task and context specificity — related