Children tend to overestimate their performance on a variety of tasks and activities. The
present meta‐analysis examines the specificity of this phenomenon across age, tasks, and …

Research has shown a bi-directional association between the (perceived) amount of
invested effort to learn or retrieve information (eg, time, mental effort) and metacognitive …

Despite immense technological advances, learners still prefer studying text from printed
hardcopy rather than from computer screens. Subjective and objective differences between …

Historically, research on the development of metacognition, that is, knowledge about
cognition, dates back to the work of Jean Piaget and his claim that young children do not …

Previous research overwhelmingly suggests that feelings of ease people experience while
processing information lead them to infer that their comprehension is high, whereas feelings …

We explore how students allocate their study time—both with regard to which materials they
select to study and how long they study them. A literature review revealed multiple outcomes …

This meta-analysis investigated the extent to which relative metacomprehension accuracy
can be increased by interventions that aim to support learners' use of situation-model cues …

If I see it correctly, this is my last book on memory development. It completes a process
started in the mid-1970s when my academic mentor and teacher Franz Weinert hired me as …

Both retrospective and prospective monitoring are considered important for self-regulated
learning of problem-solving skills. Retrospective monitoring (or self-assessment; SA) refers …

Processing fluency—the experienced ease with which a mental operation is performed—
has attracted little attention in educational psychology, despite its relevance. The present …