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Grade Expectations: Rationality and Overconfidence
Confidence and overconfidence are essential aspects of human nature, but measuring (over)confidence is not easy. Our approach is to consider students' forecasts of their exam grades. Part of a student's grade expectation is based on the student's previous academic achievements; what remains can be interpreted as (over)confidence. Our results are based on a sample of about 500 second-year underg...
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It is commonly accepted that student evaluation of teaching (SET) ratings are influenced by expected grades, and that faculty are able to ‘buy’ higher SET ratings by giving higher grades. Researchers have questioned whether there are limits to the ability to buy grades due to the possibility that students reward teachers for their relative grade as opposed to their absolute grade. In this paper...
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Patients' expectations have long been considered a contributory factor to successful psychotherapy. Expectations come in different guises, with outcome expectations centered on prognostic beliefs about the consequences of engaging in treatment. In this article, we define outcome expectations and present assessment methods and clinical examples of outcome expectations. Our research review includ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/266115b0