Confidence is not mastery
Use feedback after retrieval to calibrate confidence and choose the next practice item.
The move: score your confidence before you check. Why confidence drifts People often confuse familiarity with mastery. The deck, doc, or slide can feel known because you recognize it. But active recall asks a harder question: can you produce the answer from a cue, under the conditions where you need it? How feedback calibrates you After the attempt, compare your answer with the source and ask what kind of miss occurred. Missing a term, mixing two cases, and failing to apply a rule are different problems. Feedback tells you which one you have. What to do with sure-and-wrong Treat sure-and-wrong…
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