It’s worth noting that assessing your own learning is far easier in domains where there are practical tasks gated by knowledge. E.g: When learning.a programming language, I can measure the learning by my ability to do tasks of increasing complexity with it.
I imagine that for textbook learning you could try exams. That certainly works for maths although it has a failure mode in that it only verifies that you’ve memorized passwords whereas what you want to do is to develop a deep and intuitive understanding.
It’s worth noting that assessing your own learning is far easier in domains where there are practical tasks gated by knowledge. E.g: When learning.a programming language, I can measure the learning by my ability to do tasks of increasing complexity with it.
I imagine that for textbook learning you could try exams. That certainly works for maths although it has a failure mode in that it only verifies that you’ve memorized passwords whereas what you want to do is to develop a deep and intuitive understanding.
In many domains you could answer StackExchange questions as a practical task and you will likely get feedback when you get something wrong.