Students Sometimes Change Their Answers on Multiple-Choice Questions

Multiple Choice

Students sometimes change their answers on multiple-choice questions. Many students believe that the most common outcome is that they change from the correct answer to a wrong answer, despite research that shows that students more often change from an incorrect answer to a correct one. What accounts for the strength of this erroneous belief?

A) scientific thinking via logical deduction
B) social cognition biases that distort their beliefs of their experiences
C) a priori thinking-they reason that it would have been better to go with the first hunch or instinct
D) none of the above-students in fact believe that they are successful when they change answers