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Peer reviewedShaughnessy, John J. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1979
To determine the extent of students' confidence-judgment accuracy (CJA) and the relationship of this memory-monitoring ability to overall test performance, undergraduates in a psychology course supplied confidence-judgments along with their answers on multiple-choice test items. CJA correlated positively with test performance. (Editor/SJL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Confidence Testing, Correlation
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
