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Room for Improvement: A Study of Overconfidence in Numerical Skills among British Graduates
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Hack-Polay, Dieu; Igwe, Paul Agu; Okolie, Ugochukwu Chinonso – Industry and Higher Education, 2020
The experiment tested overconfidence in number skills among British graduates and non-graduates. The data were collected at a residential management training programme for part-time professional students. The aim of the research was to test whether graduate professionals, due to their higher qualifications, overstated their numeracy abilities…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Numeracy, Part Time Students, Management Development