Learners' self-assessments of response correctness are imperfect, with asymmetric error rates for incorrect and correct responses¶
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Currency · newest study 2010 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2013: tool and model accuracy changes quickly
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q3 i? Participants mistakenly assessed as correct 22% of their incorrect responses and mistakenly assessed as incorrect 10% of their correct responses; the computer made neither error. → Matthew Jensen Hays 2010
Evidence¶
Matthew Jensen Hays 2010¶
Matthew Jensen Hays, Nate Kornell, and Robert A. Bjork. (2010). The costs and benefits of providing feedback during learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/PBR.17.6.797
q3 · i? · causal · r2
Assessment-accuracy analysis from space-bar-pressing behavior when the computer controlled skipping; both error types were reliable in the printed statistics and the computer made no such errors.
"First, they mistakenly assessed as correct 22% (SD 5 24%) of their incorrect responses. The computer never made this mistake."
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Related Claims¶
- Participants' feedback-skipping decisions diverge from the optimal computer algorithm: they skip after some incorrect responses and fail to skip after many correct responses — related
- Participants' willingness to skip feedback after correct responses increases substantially across retrieval-practice cycles — related
- Internal error-corrections, not correct-to-incorrect changes-of-mind, produce the inverted low-confidence decision weights — related
- Final recall does not differ reliably between participant-controlled and computer-controlled feedback skipping — related
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Learners' self-assessments of response correctness are imperfect, with asymmetric error rates for incorrect and correct responses |
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Learners' self-assessments of response correctness are imperfect, with asymmetric error rates for incorrect and correct responses |
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2010 |
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2013 |
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