APA Dictionary of Psychology

a metamemory assessment of the extent to which to-be-learned information has been acquired. JOLs can be based on several different sources of information, including intrinsic cues (i.e., information from the to-be-learned material) and mnemonic cues (i.e., information based on performance during a learning task). See also ease-of-learning judgment; retrospective confidence judgment; underconfidence-with-practice effect.