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In 1962 I taught my first university course — introductory statistics. I prepared my lectures well and delivered Substantive and interesting lectures with the purpose in mind of the students learning the material from these lectures, the textbook, a workbook, etc. To my almost-terminating disappointment, the Performance of the students on the first test was extremely poor. Their poor test Performance came as a surprise to me because, based upon their questions, class attendance, apparent alertness during class periods, etc., I bclieved that they were learning the material adequately.
“The proud man...is an extreme in respect of thc greatness of his Claims, but a mean in respect of the rightness of thcm; for he Claims what is in accordance with his merits, while others go to exccss or fall short.”
“...he who thinks himself worthy of grcat things, bcing unworthy of them, is vain.”
Aristotle, 4th Century B.C.
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Hunt, D.P. (1993). Human Self-Assessment: Theory and Application to Learning and Testing. In: Leclercq, D.A., Bruno, J.E. (eds) Item Banking: Interactive Testing and Self-Assessment. NATO ASI Series, vol 112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58033-8_15
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