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  • Previous empirical studies concerning the quality of teacher judgment in the domain of identifying gifted children have provided equivocal results. In this paper the process of identifying gifted children performed by teachers is conceptualised as a subjective decision strategy. Teachers' decisions are assumed to be based on students' characteristics that constitute the teachers' probabilistic concept of giftedness. Using a sample of 58 secondary school teachers experienced in the education of gifted school students, their preferences of relevant characteristics of giftedness for diagnostic use are compared to normative models and biased tendencies of how to use those characteristics diagnostically. The teachers' subjective concept of giftedness is characterised by aspects of cognitive competence and motivational preparedness for learning. The teachers' diagnostic strategies follow to some extent the normative Bayesian model of weighting evidence but are substantially influenced by representation bias and by forms of confirmation bias. The "base rate fallacy" biases teachers' diagnostic information processing, too. Other models of the diagnostic decision process which could be used as alternatives of the cue utilisation approach applied in this paper are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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