Educational psychology has generated a prolific array of findings about factors that influence
and correlate with academic achievement. We review select findings from this voluminous …

Metacognition refers to “thinking about thinking” or our ability to know what we know, what
we don't know and how to regulate as well as control such thinking. This article seeks to give …

This study explored differences that might exist in comprehension when students read digital
and print texts. Ninety undergraduates read both digital and print versions of newspaper …

The function of accurately monitoring one's own learning is to support effective control of
study that enhances learning. Although this link between monitoring accuracy and learning …

Previous studies, such as those by Kornell and Bjork (Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14:
219–224, 2007) and Karpicke, Butler, and Roediger (Memory, 17: 471–479, 2009), have …

Metacognition is the first textbook to focus on people's extraordinary ability to evaluate and
control their cognitive processes. This comprehensive text covers both theoretical and …

This Practice Guide is the third in a series of Institute of Education Sciences (IES) guides in
education. Much of teaching is about hel** students master new knowledge and skills and …

This paper describes five indices of metacognitive monitoring referred to as absolute
accuracy, relative accuracy, bias, scatter, and discrimination. I provide definitions, formulae …

People's judgments about how well they have learned and comprehended text materials
can be important for effectively regulating learning, but only if those judgments are accurate …

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of self-evaluative standards and
graphed feedback on calibration accuracy and performance in mathematics. Specifically, we …