Correlating student knowledge and confidence using a graded knowledge survey to assess student learning in a general microbiology classroom.

ABSTRACT: Knowledge surveys are a type of confidence survey in which students rate their confidence in their ability to answer questions rather than answering the questions. These surveys have been discussed as a tool to evaluate student in-class or curriculum-wide learning. However, disagreement exists as to whether confidence is actually an accurate measure of knowledge. With the concomitant goals of assessing content-based learning objectives and addressing this disagreement, we present herein a pretest/posttest knowledge survey study that demonstrates a significant difference correctness on graded test questions at different levels of reported confidence in a multi-semester timeframe. Questions were organized into Bloom's taxonomy, allowing for the data collected to further provide statistical a

SUBMITTER: Favazzo L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4278496 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature