{"pk":27206,"title":"Algebra is not like trivia:Evaluating self-assessment in an online math tutor","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Appraising one’s own performance after a task, known as self-assessment, has been studied from a cognitive science perspec-tive in domains such as humor, trivia, and logic. Previous stud-ies have found that participants are systematically poor at judg-ing their own performance, though sometimes self-assessmentvaries based on actual performance. We explored calibrationof self-assessment on algebra problems, a domain where peo-ple have typically received explicit instruction. In this domain,we found that people do not behave as they do in other do-mains previously studied: they are generally well-calibrated injudging their algebra performance. This suggests that in thecourse of learning to solve algebra problems, people have alsolearned to accurately judge their performance, both absolutelyand relative to others.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"self-assessment; algebra; intelligent tutor; calibra-tion"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5x63k9d7","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Rachel","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Jansen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""},{"first_name":"Anna","middle_name":"N.","last_name":"Rafferty","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carleton College","department":""},{"first_name":"Thomas","middle_name":"L.","last_name":"Griffiths","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Berkeley","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27206/galley/16842/download/"}]}