Coaching practices for Before and After Rating Ioed
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- Every time my explanation falls apart, I quietly tell myself "well, I never really thought I knew that anyway"
- I do all this work on my thinking but it stays totally abstract
- Right after I read something it feels totally locked in
- I’m supposed to rate how hard a workout felt on a scale, but the numbers are meaningless to me
- When a study session feels good I walk away assuming I learned everything in it, and when it feels like a slog I assume none of it stuck
Practices that may help
- Pre-explanation rating with commitment
Rate your understanding before attempting to explain — not after — and record the number.
Illusion of Explanatory Depth: You Know Less Than You Think - Rate emotional intensity before and after
Record your emotional intensity (0–100) at the start and end of each thought record to track real change.
The Thought Record: CBT’s Core Self-Examination Tool - Delayed judgment of learning
Wait several minutes after study before rating how well you will remember — early ratings are systematically too high.
Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned - Calibrate the Borg scale to your actual physiology
The 6–20 Borg scale (or 0–10 RPE) only works if you know what each number feels like in your own body.
The RPE Scale - Global vs. local JOL separation
Rate individual items separately from your general sense of "how the session went" — they diverge.
Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned - Recognize when contrast is being used on you
Awareness of the contrast principle is the antidote — evaluate options against an independent standard, not the presented sequence.
The Contrast Principle, Made Practical - Commitment-forcing before feedback
Write a definite answer and confidence rating before seeing correct feedback — never the reverse.
Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned - Collect and deploy real, specific testimonials
A specific, verifiable account of one person’s experience outperforms a generic five-star rating.
Social Proof, Made Practical - The RPE Scale
The Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) scale translates subjective exercise intensity into a standardized number that correlates reliably with heart rate, lactate, and VO2. Using RPE alongside or instead of heart rate lets you autoregulate training load based on how you actually feel — accounting for fatigue, stress, sleep, and illness that devices cannot detect. The scale’s validity is well established in exercise science. - Rate each life domain with brutal honesty, not aspiration
The wheel’s value is proportional to the honesty of your ratings — aspirational scores produce a pleasant picture that changes nothing.
The Wheel of Life, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Before And After Mood Rating
Record mood ratings before and after activities to identify what genuinely lifts versus drains you.
Track mood alongside activity
- Borg Scale
The 6–20 Borg scale (or 0–10 RPE) only works if you know what each number feels like in your own body.
Calibrate the Borg scale to your actual physiology
- Borg Scale How To Use
The 6–20 Borg scale (or 0–10 RPE) only works if you know what each number feels like in your own body.
- How To Rate Your Own Learning
Rate individual items separately from your general sense of "how the session went" — they diverge.
Global vs. local JOL separation
- Jol Accuracy
Discount your highest-confidence JOLs most — they are the most likely to be inflated.
Regression-to-mean awareness in JOLs
- Judgment Of Learning Accuracy
Judgments of learning (JOLs) are in-the-moment predictions about how well information will be remembered later. Thomas Nelson’s research showed JOLs are often inaccurate — biased upward by current processing fluency — causing learners to declare items "learned" prematurely and under-study material they will later forget. Delayed JOLs and retrieval-based checks produce more accurate predictions and better study-time allocation.
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