Seifried, Jürgen & Wuttke, Eveline. (2010).

Student errors: How teachers diagnose

and respond to them. Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training. 2.
147-162. Current pedagogical discourse has established that teacher competence is a
conditio sine qua non for high level performance in the classroom. Nevertheless
questions of conceptualising and measuring teacher competence have yet to be
answered. In our study we analyse a facet of teacher competence essential to
successful learning processes; namely, teacher competence when diagnosing and
responding to student errors in a constructive manner. Two pilot studies
investigate how students perceive «error culture» in their classrooms, and how
teachers deal with learner errors during lessons.