Adjustment of Assessors' First Impressions Differs by Student Ethnicity.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Ethnic minority medical students often receive lower grades than their majority counterparts, especially in workplace-based assessments. To unravel this phenomenon of "differential attainment", we explore assessor bias focusing on how first impressions of students from ethnic minority groups may be adjusted differently compared to majority students when their performance changes.

Methods

In an online experiment with an incomplete block design we created near-identical videos showcasing varying performances of medical students during history-taking. Eighty-one physicians were randomly assigned to watch four different videos each, two with ascending performances (poor start, good ending) and two with descending performances (good start, poor ending), featuring one

SUBMITTER: Steinmann JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12700149 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature