Medical Students? Confidence Judgments Using a Factual Database and Personal Memory: A Comparison.

O'Keefe, Karen M.; Wildemuth, Barbara M.; Friedman, Charles P.

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ERIC Number: EJ591671

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Medical Students? Confidence Judgments Using a Factual Database and Personal Memory: A Comparison.

O'Keefe, Karen M.; Wildemuth, Barbara M.; Friedman, Charles P.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v50 n8 p698-708 Jun 1999

This study examined the quality of medical students' confidence estimates in answering questions in bacteriology based on personal knowledge alone and what they retrieved from a factual database in microbiology, in order to determine whether medical students can recognize when an information need has been fulfilled and when it has not. (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Bacteriology, Confidence Testing, Databases, Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Medical Education, Medical Students, Prior Learning

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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