Social Utility, Social Desirability and Scholastic Judgments: Toward a Personological Model of Academic Evaluation

Autor/inn/en	Dompnier, Benoit; Pansu, Pascal; Bressoux, Pascal
Titel	Social Utility, Social Desirability and Scholastic Judgments: Toward a Personological Model of Academic Evaluation
Quelle	In: European Journal of Psychology of Education, 22 (2007) 3, S.333-350 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0256-2928
Schlagwörter	Social Desirability; Grade 3; Academic Achievement; Students; Foreign Countries; Scores; French; Personality Traits; Achievement Tests; Teacher Attitudes; France + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziales Bedürfnis; School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; Schulleistung; Student; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Ausland; Französisch; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Lehrerverhalten; Frankreich
Abstract	The aim of this article is to gain further insight into the determinants of scholastic judgments. On the basis of a previous study (Dompnier, Pansu, & Bressoux, 2006), we propose a model of the processes underlying teachers' judgments. In addition to taking into account some of these determinants, the proposed model grants to pupils' social utility, as perceived by their teacher, the status of central mediator between scholastic judgments and their determinants (pupils' actual academic achievement, pupils' scholastic history, classroom context, and internality perceived by teachers). The initial model was tested on a first sample of 250 pupils (3rd grade) and their teachers, and then improved. Next, the modified model was validated on a second sample of 249 pupils (3rd grade) and their teachers. The results obtained on this sample indicated that the modified model fit the data to a satisfactory extent, and that it is more parsimonious that alternative nonhierachical models. (Contains 3 figures, 3 tables, and 6 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10