Having insight into one's abilities is essential, yet it remains unclear whether people generally perceive their skills accurately or inaccurately. In the present analysis, we examined the overall correspondence between self-evaluations of ability (e.g., academic ability, intelligence, language competence, medical skills, sports ability, and vocational skills) and objective performance measures...

OBJECTIVE We compared teaching performance of medical school faculty using anonymous evaluations and open evaluations (in which the evaluator was not anonymous) and examined barriers to open evaluation. METHODS Residents and medical students evaluated faculty using an open evaluation instrument in which their identity was indicated in the evaluation. Following this, they completed anonymous e...

1 Hong Wu, Østfold University College, Norway, N-1705 [email protected] Abstract  It is both interesting and worthwhile to experiment new methods for online course’s effectiveness evaluations. The current study is an attempt for such an unconventional method. A survey of a number of sampled online courses is conducted on these courses’ performance statistics, as their numbers of registered cours...