I recall that 5-6 years ago (I'm not going to track it down) there was an
article in Psyc Record by investigators in Israel in which they had
students rate their confidence in each response on multiple choice major
tests. I seem to recall that some students were consistently over confident.
Al
Al L. Cone
Jamestown College <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
North Dakota 701.252.3467 X 2604
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From: Miguel Roig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 6:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Student perceptions of academic performance
At 03:17 PM 11/3/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
> We've been searching the literature (using PsycLit and ERIC databases) for
any
> reports which relate to the accuracy of students' perceptions of their
academic
> performance (particularly in terms of grades, but also in terms of
behaviors
> which relate to academic performance), but have found relatively little
work
that
> is germane...and nothing that deals with such perceptions of
student-athletes.
>
> Do any of you have any good sources on this topic, or know of any work
which has
> been done that is relevant? I (and my student) would be most grateful for
any
> suggestions you have.
I don't know how relevant this might be to your student's project but our
own
Vinny
Prohaska has the following in ToP:
Prohaska, V. (1994). "I know I'll get an A": Confident overestimation of
final
course grades. Teaching of Psychology, 21, 141-143.
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