Abstract
Recent theoretical developments in the area of confidence testing suggest that an improvement in the reliability and validity of confidence tests should result from correcting scores for realism. Thirty-six medical and dental students were admin istered two short confidence-scored tests dealing with cellular and molecular biology. Both the uncorrected scores and the scores corrected for realism were correlated with course final test scores and with the biochemistry section of the National Medical Board Examination, Part I. The adjustment of scores for realism led to increases in reliability (split half) and predictive validity, although the differenceswere not statistically significant.
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