Discrimination in measures of knowledge monitoring
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Authors: | Christopher A Was |
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Institution: | Educational Psychology Laboratory, Kent State University,
USA |
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Abstract: | Knowledge monitoring predicts academic outcomes in many contexts. However,
measures of knowledge monitoring accuracy are often incomplete. In the current
study, a measure of students’ ability to discriminate known from unknown
information as a component of knowledge monitoring was considered. Undergraduate
students’ knowledge monitoring accuracy was assessed and used to predict final
exam scores in a specific course. It was found that gamma, a measure commonly
used as the measure of knowledge monitoring accuracy, accounted for a small, but
significant amount of variance in academic performance whereas the
discrimination and bias indexes combined to account for a greater amount of
variance in academic performance. |
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Keywords: | knowledge monitoring metacognition measures of knowledge monitoring |
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