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Tangen, Jason M.; Kent, Kirsty M.; Searston, Rachel A. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2020
When a fingerprint is located at a crime scene, a human examiner is counted upon to manually compare this print to those stored in a database. Several experiments have now shown that these professional analysts are highly accurate, but not infallible, much like other fields that involve high-stakes decision-making. One method to offset mistakes in…
Descriptors: Crime, Identification, Human Body, Evaluators
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Abed, Fayez; Barzilai, Sarit – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: YouTube is widely used for learning about scientific issues in and out of school. However, much of the scientific information on YouTube is inaccurate. Prior studies have mostly focused on how students evaluate textual online information sources and have not yet systematically examined how they evaluate authentic scientific YouTube…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Web Sites, Evaluative Thinking, Scientific and Technical Information
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Seidel, Tina; Schnitzler, Katharina; Kosel, Christian; Stürmer, Kathleen; Holzberger, Doris – Educational Psychology Review, 2021
The present study investigates teacher diagnostic skills when observing student engagement and inferring to underlying student characteristic profiles. Five student profiles as empirically determined in previous studies are selected: three incoherent (overestimating, uninterested, and underestimating) and two coherent (strong and struggling)…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Expertise
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Herppich, Stephanie; Wittwer, Jorg; Nuckles, Matthias; Renkl, Alexander – Journal of Experimental Education, 2013
Tutors often have difficulty with accurately assessing a tutee's understanding. However, little is known about whether the professional expertise of tutors influences their assessment accuracy. In this study, the authors examined the accuracy with which 21 teacher tutors and 25 student tutors assessed a tutee's understanding of the human…
Descriptors: Tutors, Tutoring, Science Teachers, College Students