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The Effects of Defensive Pessimism and Metacognitive Bias on Metacognitive Knowledge Monitoring and Academic Achievement

Moran, Stephanie C.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1332260981

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2012, MA, Kent State University, College of Education, Health and Human Services / School of Lifespan Development and Educational Sciences.
The ability to monitor one’s own knowledge and set reasonable expectations is an important skill for academic success. Defensive pessimism is the tendency to continually set and hold unrealistically low expectations for oneself. To examine the relationships between defensive pessimism and the ability to monitor one’s knowledge, the current study was designed to examine relationships between: metacognitive knowledge monitoring skills, judgments of learning which may be biased by defensive expectations, and classroom performance. Path analysis was completed to model the causal relationships between defensive pessimism, metacognition, metacognitive bias, and their effects on academic achievement in an educational psychology course. The sample was collected from a midwestern public university and consisted of 199 participants. Results showed a positive significant relationship between defensive expectations and pessimism bias, and negative significant relationships between defensive expectations and academic achievement, pessimism bias and academic achievement, and pessimism bias and optimism bias. Future research may focus on whether better use of metacognition could increase accuracy when making judgments of learning, and more efficiently prepare those students who are defensive pessimists for situations that require them to assess their own knowledge.
Christopher Was, PhD (Advisor)
Aryn Karpinski, PhD (Committee Member)
Anne Morrison, PhD (Committee Member)
53 p.
Adult Education; Cognitive Psychology; Educational Psychology
defensive pessimism; metacognition; metacognitive bias; pessimism, optimism

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  • Moran, S. C. (2012). The Effects of Defensive Pessimism and Metacognitive Bias on Metacognitive Knowledge Monitoring and Academic Achievement [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1332260981

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Moran, Stephanie. The Effects of Defensive Pessimism and Metacognitive Bias on Metacognitive Knowledge Monitoring and Academic Achievement. 2012. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1332260981.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Moran, Stephanie. "The Effects of Defensive Pessimism and Metacognitive Bias on Metacognitive Knowledge Monitoring and Academic Achievement." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1332260981

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