Background: Current theories of self-regulated learning predict a positive link between student monitoring accuracy and performance: students who more accurately monitor their knowledge of a particular set of materials are expected to more effectively regulate their subsequent study of those materials, which in turn should lead to higher test…

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 is intuitively plausible and is assumed by general theories of self-regulated learning, it has not received a great deal of empirical scrutiny and no study to date has…

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)