Education & Learning · The Science of Learning
A topic within The Science of Learning, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Education & Learning.
2 works
Asher Koriat & Robert A. Bjork
Shows that the fluency of processing material during study systematically inflates learners' confidence that they have learned it, producing overconfidence that is worst exactly when restudying feels easiest.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Robert A. Bjork, John Dunlosky & Nate Kornell
Reviews how learners' beliefs about effective study are often wrong, and how their in-the-moment judgements of their own learning are systematically biased by the fluency of current performance rather than by what they will actually retain.
28 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026