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Direct linkThiede, Keith W.; Dunlosky, John; Griffin, Thomas D.; Wiley, Jennifer – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
The typical finding from research on metacomprehension is that accuracy is quite low. However, recent studies have shown robust accuracy improvements when judgments follow certain generation tasks (summarizing or keyword listing) but only when these tasks are performed at a delay rather than immediately after reading (K. W. Thiede & M. C. M.…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Evaluative Thinking, Intervals, Evaluative Thinking
Peer reviewedThiede, Keith W.; Dunlosky, John – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1994
Accuracy of students' judgments of learning (JOLs) in predicting recognition versus recall was investigated in 4 experiments involving 263 college students. Accuracy was greater for delayed JOLs than for immediate JOLs, and the accuracy of JOLs was lower in predicting recognition than recall. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Evaluative Thinking, Guessing (Tests), Higher Education
