Prior Performance Information: Blessing for all, or curse for minority trainees? Unravelling and mitigating biased decision-making in rater-based assessments.

Project summary

Raters often already have prior information about a trainee. This prior information can contribute to learning, for example through specific feedback, but can also lead to stigmatization. This project investigates how prior information plays a role in single assessments and in decisions based on multiple assessments. The researchers also look at whether this leads to unjustified differences in assessments between ethnic minority and ethnic majority trainees. Unravelling this assessment process is crucial for fair assessments for all trainees, and thereby for achieving a diverse future workforce for our multicultural society.