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Beginning in the 1980s, researchers in a wide array of academic disciplines surveyed undergraduate students to learn if they were overconfident with regard to their knowledge of disciplinary subject matter. The majority of researchers have found that students tend to overestimate their abilities within a certain body of knowledge. Up until recently, most of these projects were conducted in the fields of education, psychology, and economics. In the past few years, several academic librarians have applied these methodologies to their undergraduate patrons, curious as to whether this population demonstrates similar overconfidence in their grasp of academic research. The present study surveyed 34 undergraduates enrolled in psychology classes at a large urban university in the United States to determine if these students were overconfident about their knowledge in key library research areas. These questions included citing and referencing, identifying components of scholarly and popular sources, and developing and applying searches in electronic resources. A general knowledge survey was created for comparison purposes. Statistical analysis showed that students displayed marked overconfidence on both tools, signifying a need for increased library and metacognitive skill instruction.  Depuis les annees 80, les chercheurs d’un vaste eventail des domaines academiques sondaient des etudiants universitaires afin d’apprendre s’ils etaient trop confiants au sujet de leurs connaissances de la discipline. La plupart des chercheurs ont trouve que les etudiants ont une tendance a surestimer leurs competences dans un certain corps de connaissance. Jusqu’a recemment, la majorite de ces projets etaient menes dans les domaines de l’education, de la psychologie et de l’economie. Au cours de ces dernieres annees, plusieurs bibliothecaires academiques ont applique ces methodologies sur leurs etudiants “clients”, curieux de savoir si cette population demontre un tel exces de confiance dans leur comprehension de la recherche academique. Cette etude a sonde 34 etudiants universitaires inscrits aux cours de psychologie d’une grande universite urbaine aux Etats-Unis afin de determiner si les etudiants avaient un exces de confiance a propos de leurs connaissances sur les domaines de recherche essentiels dans la bibliotheque. Dans le questionnaire, il s’agissait de citations et de references, d’identification des composants des sources erudites et populaires, et du developpement et d’application des recherches dans les sources numeriques. Un sondage de connaissances generales etait cree a des fins de comparaison. L’analyse statistique a montre que les etudiants faisaient preuve d’un exces de confiance marque sur les deux domaines, signifiant un besoin pour l’augmentation d’instruction des competences metacognitives et d’usage de la bibliotheque.

“The library catalog is definitely the best place to find articles!” Overconfidence among Undergraduate Library Users