Self-reported grades
Overview
- Influence: Self-reported grades
- Domain: Student
- Sub-Domain: Prior knowledge and background
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
- Influence Definition: A practice by which students assess the quality of their own work or their level of mastery over a given subject domain. The validity of such self-grading is often assessed by comparing a student’s “self-reported” grade with that provided by an instructor.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 7
- Number of studies: 250
- Number of students: 79,433
- Number of effects: 459
- Effect size: 1.33
Meta-Analyses
Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
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Journal of Applied Psychology | Mabe & West | USA | Validity of self-evaluation of ability: A review and meta-analysis | 1982 | Self-evaluation of achievement | 35 | 13,565 | 35 | 0.93 |
Review of Educational Research | Falchikov & Boud | UK | Student self assessment in higher education: a meta-analysis | 1989 | Self-assessment in college | 57 | 5,332 | 96 | 0.47 |
Language Testing | Ross | Japan | Self-Assessment in Second Language Testing: A Meta-Analysis and Analysis of Experiential Factors | 1998 | Self-assessment in second language | 11 | 0 | 60 | 1.63 |
Review of Educational Research | Falchikov & Goldfinch | UK | Student peer assessment in higher education: A meta-analysis comparing peer and teacher marks Meta-Analysis Comparing Peer and Teacher Marks | 2000 | Self-assessment in college | 48 | 4,271 | 56 | 1.91 |
Review of Educational Research | Kuncel, Crede, & Thomas | USA | The Validity of Self-Reported Grade Point Averages, Class Ranks, and Test Scores: A Meta-Analysis and Review of the Literature | 2005 | Self-assessment of college GPA | 29 | 56,265 | 29 | 3.10 |
Review of Educational Research | Kuncel, Crede, & Thomas | USA | The Validity of Self-Reported Grade Point Averages, Class Ranks, and Test Scores: A Meta-Analysis and Review of the Literature | 2005 | Differences between self and recorded grades | 29 | 0 | 29 | 0.60 |
Psychological Bulletin | Freund & Kasten | Germany | How smart do you think you are? A meta-analysis on the validity of self-estimates of cognitive ability | 2011 | Self-estimates of ability | 41 | 0 | 154 | 0.70 |
TOTAL/AVERAGE | 250 | 79,433 | 459 | 1.33 |
Confidence
The Confidence is the average of these four measures, each divided into five approximately equal groups and assigned a value from 1 to 5 based on the following criteria:
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Number of Meta-analyses
- 1 = 1
- 2 = 2–3
- 3 = 4–6
- 4 = 7–9
- 5 = 10+
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Number of Studies
- 1 = 1–10
- 2 = 11–50
- 3 = 51–200
- 4 = 201–400
- 5 = 400+
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Number of Students
- 1 = 1–2,500
- 2 = 2,501–10,000
- 3 = 10,000–20,000
- 4 = 20,000–100,000
- 5 = 100,001+
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Number of Effects
- 1 = 1–100
- 2 = 101–300
- 3 = 301–600
- 4 = 601–1,200
- 5 = 1,200+
Number of Meta-Analyses | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Overall Confidence | |
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Confidence Factor | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 |