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Self-assessed driver competence among novice drivers – a comparison of driving test candidate assessments and examiner assessments in a Dutch and Finnish sample by Sami Mynttinen; Anna Sundström; Jan Vissers; Marita Koivukoski; Kari Hakuli; Esko Keskinen is a Engineering article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Problem: This study examined novice drivers' overconfidence by comparing their self-assessed driver competence with the assessments made by driving examiners. ## Method: A finnish (n=2,739) and a dutch sample (n=239) of drivers license candidates assessed their driver competence in six areas and took the driving test. ## Result and discussion: In contrast to previous studies where drivers have assessed their skill in comparison to the average driver, a smaller proportion overestimated and a larger proportion made realistic self-assessments of their driver competence in the present study, where self-assessments were compared with examiner assessments. between 40% and 50% of the candidates in both samples made realistic assessments and 30% to 40% overestimated their competence. the proportion of overestimation was greater in the dutch than in the finnish sample, which might be explained by greater possibilities for practicing self-assessment in the finnish driver education system. similar to other self-assessment studies that indicate that incompetence is related to overestimation, a larger proportion of candidates that failed the test overestimated their skill compared to those w

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Author

Sami Mynttinen; Anna Sundström; Jan Vissers; Marita Koivukoski; Kari Hakuli; Esko Keskinen

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0022-4375)

Published

2009

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Health Sciences)