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Peer reviewedOrwin, 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
Peer reviewedBerger, 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
Peer reviewedBruno, 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
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
