Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence

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Training self-assessment and task-selection skills: A cognitive approach to improving self-regulated learning (2012, background): “Individuals with more prior knowledge might be more accurate self-assessors because their experience provides them with more knowledge of the criteria and standards that good performance should meet (Dunning et al., 2003, 2004).”
Example-Based Learning: Integrating Cognitive and Social-Cognitive Research Perspectives (2010, background): “…not noticed by novices and that novices may have difficulty detecting errors because the ability to do so also relies on prior knowledge (see also Dunning et al. 2003), which may have the undesirable effect that novices may engage in cognitive/physical rehearsal of faulty behavior displayed by…”
The Dunning–Kruger Effect (2011, background): “If we look at their raw score estimates, we find that people at the bottom overestimated their raw performance on the test by nearly 30% (Dunning et al., 2003).”