Overconfidence = underperformance?
Address metacognition more effectively
Learners with strong metacognitive skills are able to make realistic judgements about their own performance and can make good decisions regarding the allocation of time to spend on different topics during their studies.
The authors report a study that probed the relationship between accuracy of self-evaluation and learning gain in the study of stoichiometry to ascertain the impact of metacognitive ability on performance.
David Read summarises the research
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