Mathematics Teachers' Diagnostic Skills and Their Impact on Students' Achievements

Anders, Yvonne and Kunter, Mareike and Brunner, Martin and Krauss, Stefan and Baumert, Juergen (2010) Mathematics Teachers' Diagnostic Skills and Their Impact on Students' Achievements. PSYCHOLOGIE IN ERZIEHUNG UND UNTERRICHT, 57 (3). pp. 175-193. ISSN 0342-183X,

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Abstract

The present study investigates diagnostic skills of mathematics teachers and the way they relate to instructional quality and students' achievements. Longitudinal data were obtained from a sample of 155 teachers and their classes (3483 students) in the context of the German national extension to the PISA study (measurement points: end of 9th and 10th grade). Diagnostic skills were investigated using two indicators: the accuracy of teachers in judging the difficulty levels of mathematics tasks in their own class and the accuracy in estimating the rank order of students' achievement outcomes in their classes (rank component). In average, teachers underestimated the difficulty level of mathematics tasks in their own classes, the median of the rank component was r=0.32. The accuracy of judging difficulty levels of mathematics tasks was related to the instructional quality. Multilevel analyses showed further that both indicators were related to students' achievements, controlling for students' background and prior attainment.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: ACCURACY; JUDGMENTS; COMPETENCE; Diagnostic skills; diagnostic competence; teacher judgment accuracy; instructional quality; teacher competence
Subjects: 500 Science > 510 Mathematics
Divisions: Mathematics > Prof. Dr. Stefan Krauss
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 24 Aug 2020 09:04
Last Modified: 24 Aug 2020 09:04
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/25612

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