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Preheim, Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Knowledge assessments in undergraduate mathematics education commonly evaluate response correctness to determine learner proficiency. However, simultaneous evaluation of learner metacognition more accurately assesses the multiple dimensions of knowledge and has been shown to increase assessment validity and reliability. Research into…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Education, College Mathematics, Metacognition
bin Yahya, Ismail; Moore, Gary E. – 1984
Vocational education researchers have relied heavily on opinionnaires to measure opinions and attitudes. Usually respondents are asked to indicate their degree of agreement to an attitude or opinion statement. Where significant statistical differences exist for opinions/attitudes there is still always the problem of confidence with which…
Descriptors: Adults, Agricultural Education, Attitude Measures, Confidence Testing

Orwin, Robert G.; Cordray, David S. – Psychological Bulletin, 1985
Identifies three sources of reporting deficiency for meta-analytic results: quality (adequacy) of publicizing; quality of macrolevel reporting, and quality of microlevel reporting. Reanalysis of 25 reports from the Smith, Glass and Miller (1980) psychotherapy meta-analysis established two sources of misinformation, interrater reliabilities and…
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Interrater Reliability, Meta Analysis, Psychotherapy
Scruggs, Thomas E.; And Others – 1984
The present investigation was intended to provide information on the type of strategies employed by learning disabled (LD) students on standardized, group-administered achievement test items. Of particular interest was level of strategy effectiveness and possible differences in strategy use between LD and non-disabled students. Students attending…
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Interviews, Learning Disabilities, Multiple Choice Tests
Lohman, David F. – 1984
Although the distinction between verbal ability and spatial ability is fundamental in all models of human abilities, differences in the relative strengths of verbal and spatial abilities have failed to show consistent interactions with instructional treatments. This study investigated the hypothesis that spatial tests measure different abilities…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Confidence Testing, Higher Education, Memorization

Berger, James D.; Herringer, Lawrence G. – Journal of Social Psychology, 1991
Presents study results comparing college students' self-evaluation of recall accuracy to actual recall of detail after viewing a crime scenario. Reports that self-reported ability to remember detail correlates with accuracy in memory of specifics. Concludes that people may have a good indication early in the eyewitness situation of whether they…
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Crime, Higher Education, Prediction
Caporrimo, Rosaria – 1990
Autonomous Learning Behavior (ALB) as mediators between internal and external influences and performance on high level cognitive tasks was proposed as a possible explanation for gender-related differences in mathematics. This study developed a measure of ALB by drawing on teachers' working knowledge and the literature on problem-solving, including…
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Grade 8, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Education

Bruno, James E. – Computers in the Schools, 1987
Discussion of how computer technology can be integrated into elementary school instruction focuses on evaluating student learning through test scoring. Highlights include descriptions of a computer-based instructional delivery system, modified confidence weighted admissible probability measurement (MCW-APM), and computer-managed instructional…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Managed Instruction, Confidence Testing
Larose, Simon; And Others – 1993
Research indicates that establishing a secure attachment relationship in childhood affects later perceived social support (PSS). In order to test this relationship empirically and to gather comparative information on the separate elements of PSS, two attachment questionnaires and three measures of PSS were administered to 139 white males and 320…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Confidence Testing, Construct Validity
Di Vesta, Francis J.; Finke, F. Michael – Educational Communication and Technology, 1985
Two studies investigated robustness of the effect of precise elaborations on memory and relationship of these effects to metacognitions about learning. Sentences which were elaborated in different ways were read to subjects by experimenters to establish levels of meaningfulness and identify effects on performance. Comprehension and confidence…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comprehension, Confidence Testing, Epistemology
Littlefield, John H.; And Others – 1985
Sixteen Family Practice faculty members completed ratings on 59 senior medical students after a 6-week primary care clerkship. Each student was rated by seven to ten faculty members and the chief residents who worked with them, resulting in a total of 353 ratings. The rating scale covered: (1) attainment of learning objectives; (2) progress during…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Clinical Experience, Confidence Testing, Evaluators