Examining Response Confidence in Multiple Text Tasks

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Hauptverfasser: List, Alexandra, Alexander, Patricia A.
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contents Examining Response Confidence in Multiple Text Tasks List, Alexandra Alexander, Patricia A. Self Esteem Responses Student Attitudes Undergraduate Students Electronic Publishing Journal Articles Newspapers Criteria Context Effect Correlation Accuracy Cognitive Processes Students' confidence in their responses to a multiple text-processing task and their justifications for those confidence ratings were investigated. Specifically, 215 undergraduates responded to two academic questions, differing by type (i.e., discrete and open-ended) and by domain (i.e., developmental psychology and astrophysics), using a digital library of seven varied texts (e.g., journal article, newspaper, Wikipedia). Students then indicated how confident they were in their responses and provided justifications for their level of confidence. This investigation had four main goals: (a) to determine the strength of students' response confidence; (b) to understand the criteria students use to derive their confidence ratings; (c) to consider the effect of task conditions on ratings and justifications; and (d) to examine the relation between students' response confidence ratings and justifications and the accuracy and quality of their responses. Students' justifications for response confidence were found to vary across task conditions. Further justifications for response confidence based on sources consulted (i.e., text-directed justifications) were found to relate to response accuracy for the discrete question and to response quality for the open-ended question.
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spellingShingle Examining Response Confidence in Multiple Text Tasks
List, Alexandra
Alexander, Patricia A.
Self Esteem
Responses
Student Attitudes
Undergraduate Students
Electronic Publishing
Journal Articles
Newspapers
Criteria
Context Effect
Correlation
Accuracy
Cognitive Processes
Examining Response Confidence in Multiple Text Tasks List, Alexandra Alexander, Patricia A. Self Esteem Responses Student Attitudes Undergraduate Students Electronic Publishing Journal Articles Newspapers Criteria Context Effect Correlation Accuracy Cognitive Processes Students' confidence in their responses to a multiple text-processing task and their justifications for those confidence ratings were investigated. Specifically, 215 undergraduates responded to two academic questions, differing by type (i.e., discrete and open-ended) and by domain (i.e., developmental psychology and astrophysics), using a digital library of seven varied texts (e.g., journal article, newspaper, Wikipedia). Students then indicated how confident they were in their responses and provided justifications for their level of confidence. This investigation had four main goals: (a) to determine the strength of students' response confidence; (b) to understand the criteria students use to derive their confidence ratings; (c) to consider the effect of task conditions on ratings and justifications; and (d) to examine the relation between students' response confidence ratings and justifications and the accuracy and quality of their responses. Students' justifications for response confidence were found to vary across task conditions. Further justifications for response confidence based on sources consulted (i.e., text-directed justifications) were found to relate to response accuracy for the discrete question and to response quality for the open-ended question.
title Examining Response Confidence in Multiple Text Tasks
topic Self Esteem
Responses
Student Attitudes
Undergraduate Students
Electronic Publishing
Journal Articles
Newspapers
Criteria
Context Effect
Correlation
Accuracy
Cognitive Processes
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1081623