This research examines the extent to which a crisis situation, such as the COVID-19
pandemic, affects marketing students' self-regulated learning (SRL) and grade expectations …

Confidence and overconfidence are essential aspects of human nature, but measuring
(over) confidence is not easy. Our approach is to consider students' forecasts of their exam …

Parents and their children's expectations on educational achievement have been
highlighted in the literature as proper proxy indicators for students' forthcoming performance …

We present an analysis of A-level subject choices at around age 16 for a cohort of students
in English schools who completed their studies in 2014. We examined both the National …

Data from the US and Canada indicate that students' educational expectations are often
unrealistically high. Thus, the present meta-analysis tested whether students tend to …

Ineffective study strategies breed overconfidence, bad grades, misplaced blame, and little
long-term learning. The psychological learning-science literature suggests that pedagogies …

In numerous subjects, people with the least knowledge also lack the ability to assess how
much they don't know. Specifically, the less competent the individual, the greater is their …

In this paper, we study overconfidence and goal-setting in academic performance, with and
without monetary incentives. Students enrolled in a microeconomics course were offered the …

This study examined the heterogeneity in temporal shifts of unrealistic optimism (UO) by
analyzing students' grade expectation throughout a semester. UO was defined as the gap …

We characterize the extreme points of first-order stochastic dominance (FOSD) intervals and
show how these intervals are at the heart of many topics in economics. Using these extreme …