Bir performans değerlendirme ortaminda kaynak monitör etme eğitiminin hale ve negatiflik etkisini azaltmadaki etkinliği

Performance appraisals are regularly conducted in both work organizations and educational settings. However, rater biases in performance appraisal are quite common, and decrease the usefulness of these appraisals. The goal of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of source monitoring training in reducing some of these biases, namely the halo effect and the negativity bias. One hundred twenty six participants watched the videotaped performance segments of an instructor that presumably took place over the course of a year. After watching the video, participants in the experimental group received source monitoring instructions teaching them how to use their memories. In particular, they were trained to differentiate specific memory traces from feelings of familiarity and base their judgments solely on these specific memory traces. Results showed that source monitoring training successfully reduced halo effect and negativity bias and increased the accuracy of ratings. These improvements were due to greater reliance on specific memory traces, as revealed by measures of recognition memory which indicates the accuracy of the participants in discriminating between the behaviors that occurred and did not occur. In conclusion, source monitoring training appears to be a promising method for increasing the accuracy of ratings in performance appraisal settings.