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The Role of Metacognitive Competences in the Development of School Achievement among Gifted Adolescents
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Tibken, Catharina; Richter, Tobias; von der Linden, Nicole; Schmiedeler, Sandra; Schneider, Wolfgang – Child Development, 2022
Gifted underachievers perform worse in school than would be expected based on their high intelligence. Possible causes for underachievement are low motivational dispositions (need for cognition) and metacognitive competences. This study tested the interplay of these variables longitudinally with gifted and non-gifted students from Germany…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Academically Gifted, Grade 6
Measuring Comprehension Monitoring with the Inconsistency Task in Adolescents: Stability, Associations with Reading Comprehension Skills, and Differences between Grade Levels
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Tibken, Catharina; Richter, Tobias; Wannagat, Wienke; Schmiedeler, Sandra; von der Linden, Nicole; Schneider, Wolfgang – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
The inconsistency task is used to measure metacognitive monitoring in text comprehension via online (reading time) and offline measures (number of detected inconsistencies). Few studies have examined stability in task performance and interindividual differences. We addressed these issues with adolescents (N = 341) in Grades 6/7 (Mage =…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9