What Does Research Say about Self-Evaluation?

Personal-Social Development

“…Brandt (14) stated that research begins to show that children who have experience in evaluating their classroom activities are more accurate in self-appraisal than other children. Russell (79) presented a review of the research on children's self-evaluation, particularly as it relates to school activities. Jersild (48) and Jersild and Helfant (49) offered many suggestions applicable to classroom activities.…”

The Role of the Other in Self-Evaluation

“…Two other studies where authoritative "others" are concerned bear on this question. Russell (1953) has reviewed a number of largely unpublished studies which show the tendency for students to rate their own accomplishment more highly than do their teachers. Frenkel-Brunswik ( 1939 ) studied the self-evaluations of advanced psychology students at the University of Vienna and found negative correlations between these evaluations and those of staff per-…”

Self-direction and programed instruction for five different types of learning objectives

“…A number of field studies have compared various self-directing or learnercentered methods with teacher-centered methods, and have yielded conflicting results (Briggs, 1947(Briggs, , 1949Pressey, 1949;Russell, 1953;McKeachie, 1954;Thompson & Tom, 1957;Hunnicutt & Iverson, 1958;Olson, 1959;Anderson, 1963). A study by Gruber and Weitman (1962) was probably the most comprehensive in that self-direction (by college students) was examined across many different subject matters and for many criteria, including long-term attitude changes.…”