A while back, I posted about a lesson I was doing in my class — Study Says Self-Reporting On Our Behavior Tends To Be “Positively Biased” – How I’ll Use This In The Classroom.

The purpose of the lesson was to help students see that we all often don’t have an accurate picture of ourselves.

As I wrote then:

My hope is that, in addition to possibly helping students monitor their own behavior more closely, this kind of lesson will be something I can refer back to when I speak with a student who doesn’t see a difference in their behavior…

The lesson went pretty well, and I’ve now learned of another study that I’ll include the next time I teach it. How accurate are most people’s self-assessments? is the title of a report on the research that reinforces what I hope students will learn…