Confirmation bias among educational counselors

Abstract

Confirmative Bias indicates that individuals search for information that confirms their ideas and search for it in a way that is consistent with their beliefs and assumptions (Cherry, 2016, 5).

The aim of the current research is to measure the confirmation bias among educational counselors, and to achieve this, the descriptive approach was used, as the sample was chosen randomly and its size is 400 male and female counselors, with 147 males and 253 females. The confirmation bias scale, based on the theory of argumentation, consists of 20 items distributed over four domains, with 5 items for each domain. Then the validity and reliability of the scale was verified, and the results showed that educational counselors suffer from confirmation bias, and there are no statistically significant differences in confirmation bias. According to the gender variable, the study then reached and concluded a set of proposals and recommendations

Keywords: (confirmation bias, educational counselors)