Judgment accuracy in experienced versus student teachers: Assessing essays in English as a foreign language

Teacher judgment accuracy (TJA) is a central part of diagnostic competence. Research has revealed heterogeneous results regarding teacher characteristics as determinants of TJA. In the present experimental study N = 36 experienced and N = 47 student teachers holistically and analytically assessed four student essays. We compared the judgments of teachers and student teachers to machine scores and expert ratings. Experienced teachers’ judgments...