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Self-Assessments of Skills in an Adult Educational and Vocational Guidance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2015

J A Athanasou
J A Athanasou*
Affiliation:
University of Technology, Sydney
*
Faculty of Education, University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007
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Abstract

Self-ranking of results on tests of reading, strength, dexterity, and grip in educational and vocational guidance were compared with test Performance for 49 adults undergoing educational and vocational guidance. Only some self-rankings were significantly correlated with the ranking of the standardised results. There were no influences of age, gender or years of schooling on self-ranking but there were marked inter-individual differences in the accuracy of self-assessment. The results have implications for the use of self-assessment in an educational context.

Keywords

self-assessmentself-estimateself-rankingvocational guidance
Type
Research Article
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The Educational and Developmental Psychologist , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , 2007 , pp. 36 - 44
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Copyright © Australian Psychological Society 2007

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