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Download full textSoto, Christian; Poblete, M. Fernanda Rodríguez; de Blume, Antonio P. Gutierrez – International Journal of Special Education, 2018
The purpose of this investigation was to explore the importance of different meta-comprehension aspects in students with intellectual disabilities, and to determine which one of them can best explain their performance on reading comprehension. For this purpose, metacognitive measurement instruments, an inconsistency detection tasks, and confidence…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Reading Comprehension, Standardized Tests, Regression (Statistics)
Direct linkHigham, Philip A. – Learning and Instruction, 2013
A single experiment is reported in which introductory psychology students were administered a multiple-choice test on psychology with either 4 (n = 78) or 5 alternatives (n = 92) prior to any lectures being delivered. Two answers were generated for each question: a small answer consisting of their favorite alternative, and a large answer…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Evaluation, Psychology, Multiple Choice Tests
Peer reviewedWebb, James M.; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1994
Effects of immediate and delayed feedback on learning were studied in 2 experiments involving 120 undergraduate students. Subjects answered 90 general information multiple-choice items on 2 different occasions 1 week apart. Subjects rated their confidence in their responses. Results provide support for the Kulhavy and Stock model and the…
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Feedback, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Sinkavich, Frank J. – 1988
The relationship between metamemorial accuracy and student test performance was assessed in a graduate educational psychology class. Metamemory is defined as information about the content of one's own memory. Adult students in two courses (N=67) were asked to select multiple choice answers in two midterms and a final examination and to rate their…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Confidence Testing, Educational Psychology, Graduate Students
Puncochar, Judith; And Others – 1994
Individual and group assessments of quiz accuracy and students' discrimination of what they know and what they do not know regarding course material were examined using confidence ratings from 22 graduate students, 47 undergraduates, and their 23 heterogeneous learning groups over 6 quizzes. Students first took each multiple choice quiz as…
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Decision Making, Graduate Students, Group Dynamics
