Effects of Training Self-Assessment and Using Assessment Standards on Retrospective and Prospective Monitoring of Problem Solving

• In Event: Poster Session 2
  In Poster Session: Using, Integrating, and Evaluating Information

Abstract

Retrospective monitoring (or self-assessment; SA), refers to students’ own assessment of how well they performed on a problem just completed. Prospective monitoring (or Judgments of Learning; JOLs), refers to students’ own judgment about how well they will perform on a (similar) problem on a future test. We investigated whether secondary education students’ SA accuracy could be improved by training, or by providing assessment standards, and whether this would also affect the accuracy of JOLs. Accurate assessment of past performance might provide a good cue for judging future performance. We found no effect of SA training on SA accuracy. However, providing assessment standards did improve SA accuracy, posttest performance and also JOL accuracy but only on identical, not on isomorphic problems.

Authors

• Martine Baars, Erasmus University Rotterdam

• Tamara Van Gog, Erasmus University

• Anique De Bruin, Erasmus University

• Fred Paas, Erasmus University