Opportunities for Self-Evaluation Increase Student Calibration in an Introductory Biology Course.

ABSTRACT: Accurate self-evaluation is critical for learning. Calibration describes the relationship between learners' perception of their performance and their actual performance on a task. Here, we describe two studies aimed at assessing and improving student calibration in a first-semester introductory biology course at a 4-year public institution. Study 1 investigated students' (n = 310) calibration (the difference between estimated and actual exam performance) across one semester. Students were significantly miscalibrated for the first exam: their predicted scores were, on average, significantly higher than their actual scores. The lowest-performing students had the most inaccurate estimates. Calibration improved with each exam. By the final exam, students underestimated their scores. We

SUBMITTER: Osterhage JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6755215 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature