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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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Fenna, Doug S. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2004
Multiple-choice testing (MCT) has several advantages which are becoming more relevant in the current financial climate. In particular, they can be machine marked. As an objective testing method it is particularly relevant to engineering and other factual courses, but MCTs are not widely used in engineering because students can benefit from…
Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Testing, Multiple Choice Tests, Engineering Education