Do Text Titles Affect Metacognitive Judgments?

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Abstract

Text-titles are frequently used to prompt learners to provide global metacomprehension judgments. Hence, the nature of the titles may affect how learners provide their judgments and how accurately they monitor their learning process. The present study investigated the effects of concrete vs. abstract titles on judgment magnitude and metacomprehension accuracy and showed that titles affect prospective, but not retrospective ease-of-comprehension-ratings when learning from concrete and coherent expository texts. Monitoring accuracy, as measured by monitoring bias, was remarkably high in this study, indicating that learners may be able to monitor their text comprehension quite accurately if text and task demands are clear.

Authors

• Marie Lippmann, Dresden University of Technology

• Susanne Narciss, Technische Universität Dresden

• Neil H. Schwartz, California State University - Chico

• Neil Jacobson, California State University - Chico