Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: Organizations are increasingly relying on employees to self-manage their learning needs.Therefore, it is important for individuals to accurately assess their IT knowledge because accurate self-assessment is critical to effective self-management.Metacognition represents individuals' self-monitoring and self-regulating abilities, and plays a key role in self-managed learning.This study examines two dimensions of metacognitionself-efficacy and self-awareness.We aim to understand how self-efficacy and self-awareness influence individuals' metacognitive process and contribute toward increased effectiveness in self-managed learning.We argue that greater confidence in ability will result in increased self-awareness and learning outcomes in IT.Study findings suggest that increased computer self-efficacy is related to increased self-awareness and over-estimation.Low confidence in abilities was found to be related to under-estimation and lower levels of self-awareness.Therefore, under-estimation was found to be detrimental to learning outcomes while overconfidence was found to be beneficial.Further research is required to understand the threshold between beneficial and detrimental miscalibrated self-awareness.
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2116211511