Do converging student/teacher personality traits affect outcomes of teacher assessments?
Teacher judgement underpins key outcomes for individual students, class organisation and school management on a daily basis. Accurate and impartial judgements are central to a teacher’s professional competence. Are teachers as human beings totally resistant to value judgement and bias? This article in Journal of Educational Psychology scrutinises teacher assessments in the context of attraction and similarity in the teacher/student relationship. Past research has shown unexplained variance in teacher judgements vs.