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Händel, Marion; Fritzsche, Eva Susanne – Educational Psychology, 2015
We report results of two studies on metacognitive accuracy with undergraduate education students. Participating students were asked to judge their personal performance in a multiple-choice exam as well as to state their confidence in their performance judgement (second-order judgement [SOJ]). In each study, we compared four conditions that…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Self Efficacy, Self Concept Measures, Undergraduate Students
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Mathabathe, Kgadi C.; Potgieter, Marietjie – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2014
The ability to make realistic judgments of one's performance is a demonstration of the possession of strong metacognitive skills. In this study we investigate the relationship between accuracy of self-evaluation as an expression of metacognitive skill, and learning gain in stoichiometry. The context is an academic development programme at a South…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Chemistry, Achievement Gains, Accuracy
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Snyder, Kate E.; Nietfeld, John L.; Linnenbrink-Garcia, Lisa – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2011
The current study investigated differences in metacognition between high school gifted (n = 44) and typical (n = 23) students and examined local calibration accuracy as a potential mechanism for partially explaining superior exam performance by gifted students. Metacognition was measured using student self-reports of metacognitive awareness,…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Metacognition, Biology, Longitudinal Studies