"The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive
inability of the unskilled to recognize their own ineptitude and
evaluate their own ability accurately. Their research also suggests corollaries:
highly skilled individuals may underestimate their relative competence
and may erroneously assume that tasks which are easy for them are also
easy for others." wikipedia
What does the Dunning-Kruger effect mean for teachers in the classroom when it comes to working with students who may not know where they stand in relation to the material at hand and the abilities of their peers?
It would be fun to write investigative instruments and maybe design some research to learn more about the Dunning-Kruger effect. If anyone out there is looking for a topic, here's a beauty!
This Dunning-Kruger effect is present all around us. Let me think about this. Fascinating Grace, you get me thinking.
ReplyDeleteThat's what humans do, IMO, they make each other think things that would impossible in isolation.
ReplyDeleteWe are such social creatures.