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Coutinho, 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
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Koriat, 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
Jack, Brady Michael; Liu, Chia-Ju; Chiu, Hoan-Lin; Shymansky, James A. – Online Submission, 2009
This proposal presents the results of a case study involving five 8th grade Taiwanese classes, two mathematics and three science classes. These classes used a new method of testing called confidence wagering. This paper advocates the position that confidence wagering can predict the accuracy of a student's test answer selection during…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Testing, Grade 8, Teaching Methods