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Direct linkDutke, Stephan; Barenberg, Jonathan – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2015
We introduce a specific type of item for knowledge tests, confidence-weighted true-false (CTF) items, and review experiences of its application in psychology courses. A CTF item is a statement about the learning content to which students respond whether the statement is true or false, and they rate their confidence level. Previous studies using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Psychology, Objective Tests
Peer reviewedLundeberg, Mary A.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1994
Gender differences in item-specific confidence judgments were studied for 70 male and 181 female college students. Gender differences in confidence were dependent on context and the domain being tested. Both men and women were overconfident, but men were especially overconfident when incorrect. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Confidence Testing, Context Effect, Difficulty Level
