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Table 8 Avoidance focused coping strategies

From: Qualitative study about the ways teachers react to feedback from resident evaluations

Reject the standard:

If I‘m expected to teach science with all those statistics, so if someone expects me to have that kind of expert knowledge, then I feel I’m not competent. I just can’t do it! (12111 GP, 2 year’s experience, below average results).

Putting aside the results:

I think it is alright. I know there are residents who are thrifty with giving grades and some are more generous. I guess that has to do with their characters (32119 GP, 3 year’s experience, above average results)

Reject the outcomes:

Well, there were schedule problems and, yes, I wonder what is best evaluation moment? Furthermore you have to take into account that there was a certain evaluation - weariness. And, yes, some residents have too high demands for us, teachers (32114 GP, 3 year’s experience, below average results)

Avoidance (f.i. Do you have any intentions or do you intend to make any plans on the basis of these results?):

Did you consider an item about the need for science; I mean the need of the residents? Because that could influence my results on that specific item. (1219 GP, 2 year’s experience, above average results)