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Charles J. Fitzsimmons; Clarissa A. Thompson – Metacognition and Learning, 2024
Metacognitive monitoring, recognizing when one is accurate or not, is important because judgments of one's performance or knowledge often relate to control decisions, such as help seeking. Unfortunately, children and adults struggle to accurately monitor their performance during number-magnitude estimation. People's accuracy in estimating number…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Progress Monitoring, Cues, Spatial Ability
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Ketelsen, Kirk; Welsh, Marilyn – Brain and Cognition, 2010
The current study was designed to examine the possible existence of two limited-capacity pools of central executive resources: one each for verbal and visuospatial processing. Ninety-one college students (M age = 19.0, SD = 2.2) were administered a verbal working memory task that involved updating numbers in 2-, 3-, and 4-load conditions. The task…
Descriptors: Mental Computation, Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology), Arithmetic