Measurement Usage in Self-Assessment

• Activity Number: 260
• Type: Contributed
• Date/Time: Monday, August 5, 2013 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
• Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
• Author(s): Julia Norton*+ and John Dewey Lovell and John Alva Norton and Yaelan Wong
• Companies: California State University, East Bay and California State University, East Bay and California State University, East Bay and California State University, East Bay
• Keywords: Assessment ; Measurement ; Introductory courses

Abstract

Continuing our study of self-assessment of individual exam questions , we turn to various forms of rules for assigning values to the question 'How certain are you of the correctness of your answer?' In several introductory psychology classes we measured self-assessment as it correlates to correct response or incorrect response using several rules for assigning assessments. When we originally used a 1 to 5 scale (1 certain correct and 5 no knowledge), we noticed that some individuals always responded sure or unsure (1 or 5) with no further gradation. These results generally corresponded to better students using a 1 rating and poorer students using a 5 rating. Several rules were tested. Where possible we have repeated tests over individuals using the same rule. Our results are compared with past results with these new rules or instructions given to students during testing.