{"id":48322,"date":"2017-12-07T10:04:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T15:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=48322"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:09","slug":"armstrong-student-grades-how-confidence-can-hinder-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/12\/armstrong-student-grades-how-confidence-can-hinder-success\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Student grades \u2014 How confidence can hinder success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, an associate professor of operations research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/student-grades-how-confidence-can-hinder-success-88529?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%207%202017&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%207%202017+CID_5b1d65012c899ab23f30db2ee0c5a521&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Student%20grades%20How%20confidence%20can%20hinder%20success\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote a piece recently published in the Conversation<\/a> about how being overly confident during exam season may leave students with lower-than-expected scores.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>At this time of year, university students across the country are preparing for exams. Some will happily get higher-than-expected marks. But a larger group instead will be surprised by lower scores.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Negative surprises are common partly because we humans tend to be overly optimistic. Look at how people\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/jackpot-why-longer-odds-will-never-put-us-off-the-national-lottery-49032\">buy lottery tickets<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/should-regulation-be-aimed-at-saving-the-payday-borrower-from-themselves-56611\">borrow money<\/a> or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-merger-optimism-feeds-investors-a-comforting-tale-of-bumper-earnings-44935\">invest in stocks<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Students also tend to be unduly optimistic about their learning and forthcoming grades. Less skilled students are especially likely to over-estimate. This may lead them to make poor choices. If they mistakenly believe they\u2019re already doing well, they may not study enough.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/student-grades-how-confidence-can-hinder-success-88529?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%207%202017&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20December%207%202017+CID_5b1d65012c899ab23f30db2ee0c5a521&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Student%20grades%20How%20confidence%20can%20hinder%20success\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, an associate professor of operations research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a piece recently published in the Conversation about how being overly confident during exam season may leave students with lower-than-expected scores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,6],"tags":[594,4395,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48323,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48322\/revisions\/48323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}