Better Than Predicted? Modeling College Math Students' Predictions of Future Exam Performance

• In Event: 52.079 - Procrastination and Calibration: Factors Impacting College Students' Self-Regulated Learning

Abstract

We examined college students’ self-monitoring and calibration, specifically their ability to accurately predict their exam scores, prior to actually taking exams in two large introductory math courses taken by freshmen students at a large public Midwestern university. We modeled students’ expected or better than expected predictions of their first, midterm, and final exam to identify variables associated with students’ calibration and their implications. In general, it was expected that calibration would be a function of whether students were more adaptively motivated and more self-regulated in general.

Authors

• Stephen J. Aguilar, University of Southern California

• Stuart A. Karabenick, University of Michigan

• William Gehring, University of Michigan

• Steven Lonn, University of Michigan