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December 21, 2012 Why Some Kids Have An Inflated Sense Of Their
Science Skills Originally published on Fri December 21, 2012
8:49 pm If you're a student at the halfway point of the academic
year, and you've just taken stock of your performance, perhaps
you have reason to feel proud of yourself. But a recent study
suggests some of the pride you feel at having done well —
especially in science — may be unfounded. Or at least your sense
of your performance may not be a very accurate picture of how
good you actually are. A massive analysis of some 350,000
students at nearly 14,000 schools in 53 countries has uncovered
a paradox: Students in many co