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Teachers' perceptions concerning the relative values of personal and clinical characteristics and their influence on the assignment of students' clinical grades
Author(s) -
DURAND R. P.,
LEVINE J. H.,
LICHTENSTEIN L. S.,
FLEMING G. A.,
ROSS G. R.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1988.tb00762.x
Subject(s) - psychology , grading (engineering) , perception , rating scale , social psychology , medical education , applied psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , developmental psychology , civil engineering , neuroscience , engineering
Summary. Twenty senior teachers were asked to rank, in order of influence, the seven clinical and five personal characteristics used to grade third‐year medicine clerks. Seventeen perceived themselves to be more influenced by clinical characteristics when assigning grades. Independently, the actual ratings completed over a 3‐year period by these same teachers were analysed to measure the congruency between their perceived and actual grading behaviour. When actually rating students only nine raters were more influenced by clinical characteristics and just one half of the teachers displayed a congruency between their perceived and actual rating behaviour. The implications of these findings are discussed.