How accurately can students evaluate the quality of self-generated examples of declarative concepts? Not well, and feedback does not help

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 46, Issue , 2016, Pages 12-20

  Zamary, Amanda ^a   Rawson, Katherine A ^a   Dunlosky, John ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Example generation; Feedback; Metacognition; Monitoring; Overconfidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84985987079     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2016.08.002     Document Type: Article

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