Overconfidence produces underachievement: Inaccurate self evaluations undermine students' learning and retention

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 271-280

  Dunlosky, John ^a   Rawson, Katherine A ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Judgment accuracy; Metacognition; Metacomprehension; Retention; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859977288     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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