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Direct linkMoore, Don A.; Healy, Paul J. – Psychological Review, 2008
The authors present a reconciliation of 3 distinct ways in which the research literature has defined overconfidence: (a) overestimation of one's actual performance, (b) overplacement of one's performance relative to others, and (c) excessive precision in one's beliefs. Experimental evidence shows that reversals of the first 2 (apparent…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Literature, Self Esteem, Confidence Testing
Peer reviewedRobitaille, David F.; Sherrill, James M. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1981
Data indicated that high percentages of fifth- through eighth-grade low achievers had high algorithm confidence for the operations of addition, subtraction, and multiplication. A substantial proportion in each grade expressed a low degree of confidence in their computational method for division. (CM)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computation, Confidence Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
