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Download full textCoutinho, Mariana V. C.; Papanastasiou, Elena; Agni, Stylianou; Vasko, John M.; Couchman, Justin J. – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
In this study, we examined monitoring accuracy during in class-exams for Emirati, American and Cypriot college students. In experiment 1, 120 students made local, confidence-ratings for each multiple-choice question in a psychology exam and also estimated their performance at the end of the exam. In experiment 2, to investigate the effect of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Accuracy
Direct linkKoriat, Asher – Psychological Review, 2012
How do people monitor the correctness of their answers? A self-consistency model is proposed for the process underlying confidence judgments and their accuracy. In answering a 2-alternative question, participants are assumed to retrieve a sample of representations of the question and base their confidence on the consistency with which the chosen…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Validity, Computation, Task Analysis
Miller, Tyler M.; Geraci, Lisa – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
People are generally overconfident in their self-assessments and this overconfidence effect is greatest for people of poorer abilities. For example, poor students predict that they will perform much better on exams than they do. One explanation for this result is that poor performers in general are doubly cursed: They lack knowledge of the…
Descriptors: Prediction, Metacognition, Low Achievement, Self Esteem
