TY - JOUR
T1 - Answer changing in testing situations
T2 - the role of metacognition in deciding which answers to review
AU - Stylianou-Georgiou, Agni
AU - Papanastasiou, Elena C.
PY - 2017/5/19
Y1 - 2017/5/19
N2 - The purpose of our study was to examine the issue of answer changing in relation to students’ abilities to monitor their behaviour accurately while responding to multiple-choice tests. The data for this study were obtained from the final examination administered to students in an educational psychology course. The results of the study indicate that decision making regarding answer changing can be informed by metacognitive monitoring when a student's attention is drawn to cues solicited during testing. However, answer changing can be a “tricky” test-taking strategy, and how it relates to test performance is based on an interplay of variables both at a person level as well as at a task level. This is probably why this strategy is frequently misunderstood by both test-takers and educators.
AB - The purpose of our study was to examine the issue of answer changing in relation to students’ abilities to monitor their behaviour accurately while responding to multiple-choice tests. The data for this study were obtained from the final examination administered to students in an educational psychology course. The results of the study indicate that decision making regarding answer changing can be informed by metacognitive monitoring when a student's attention is drawn to cues solicited during testing. However, answer changing can be a “tricky” test-taking strategy, and how it relates to test performance is based on an interplay of variables both at a person level as well as at a task level. This is probably why this strategy is frequently misunderstood by both test-takers and educators.
KW - answer confidence
KW - Item review
KW - metacognition
KW - monitoring
KW - multiple-choice items
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85032829018&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13803611.2017.1390479
DO - 10.1080/13803611.2017.1390479
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85032829018
SN - 1380-3611
VL - 23
SP - 102
EP - 118
JO - Educational Research and Evaluation
JF - Educational Research and Evaluation
IS - 3-4
ER -