Unravelling workplace educators’ judgment processes when assessing students’ performance at the workplace

Figures & data

Table 1. Complete tally of collected data.

Case (duration)	Interviews	Observations	Documents
A (22 weeks)	17	5	3
B (45 weeks)	32	5	8
C (21 weeks)	21	4	3
total	70	14	14

Figure 1. Schematic representation of analysis process.

Figure 2. Matrix format per case

Table 2. Relating day-to-day impressions to overarching image.

placement week	Overarching image/day-to-day impressions
37	She is definitely becoming more flexible, she seems to have less difficulty to improvise, so that is, Ithink that is agood development. […] The improvising as well, oh, we need to do something different, ok, let’s see how it pans out and it ended up being areally fun activity.
38	[the student was absent one of the two days] When she is there, she shows what she can do. And Iappreciate that. And she’s showing growth, development, she shows that she’s working on her degree and still there is something missing, and this is amongst other things a bit of openness about why she is absent so often.
39	She did well last week, yes. And in that respect I look at it per week and then I pull that picture towards a full picture of how have you functioned across the board.

Table 3. More complex tasks early in placement.

Case	Week	Task	Illustrative quote
A	5	Write a news message for internal communication and run it past the editor by herself (which led to conflict)	So I’d asked her to write a message and run it past that editor by herself. So I heard on Monday what had happened. It didn’t surprise me that it happened that way, so I didn’t intervene in advance.
B	2	Work out a longer term project plan for a homework support group	I asked her to develop a sort of kids college-type activity for the Tuesday where the children do homework together. And we went through the information, I pointed out the digital system.
C	6	Design a logo from scratch	I’m going to throw her in at the deep end and just look where she stays afloat and where she sinks. I have to let it go at some point and see where it happens.