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ERIC Number: EJ442327
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
Attributional Bias and Course Evaluations.
Gigliotti, Richard J.; Buchtel, Foster S.
Journal of Educational Psychology, v82 n2 p341-51 Jun 1990
How self-serving bias affects evaluations of college courses was tested for 691 students by comparing a model predicting that evaluations reflect actual grades with a model predicting that evaluations reflect confirmation or disconfirmation of expectations. Results support course evaluation validity by indicating a minimal effect of self-serving bias. (SLD)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Bias, Course Evaluation, Demography, Grades (Scholastic), Higher Education, Models, Predictive Measurement, Questionnaires, Self Esteem, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Undergraduate Students, Validity
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Class Means; Self Serving Effect
Note: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (San Francisco, CA, 1989).