Histograms are widely used and appear easy to understand. Research nevertheless
indicates that students, teachers and researchers often misinterpret these graphical …

Engineering accreditation bodies express a strong consensus that in addition to technical
and scientific skills, engineering education also needs to promote the development of …

Abstract The Dunning-Kruger effect (DKE) is the finding that, across a wide range of tasks,
poor performers greatly overestimate their ability, whereas top performers make more …

Abstract The Dunning–Kruger Effect (DKE) describes the cognitive bias in which novices
tend to overestimate performance or competence while experts tend to underestimate …

An explanation of the Dunning–Kruger effect is provided which does not require any
psychological explanation, because it is derived as a statistical artifact. This is achieved by …

People's perceptions of their intelligence correlate only moderately with objective
intelligence measures. On average, people overestimate themselves. According to the …

For many intellectual tasks, the people with the least skill overestimate themselves the most,
a pattern popularly known as the Dunning–Kruger effect (DKE). The dominant account of …

Kruger and Dunning (1999) described a metacognitive bias in which insight into
performance is linked to competence: poorer performers are less aware of their mistakes …

Within the domain of face processing, researchers have been interested in quantifying the
relationship between objective (ie, performance on laboratory tests of recognition and …

The ability to self-assess is a key component of learning and particularly of life-long learning.
Knowledge surveys (KS) are a self-assessment tool where respondents rate their ability to …