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Advances in Understanding Metacomprehension Accuracy of Expository Text

Mon, April 16, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Crown Plaza Times Square, Floor: Fourth Floor, Times Square A Room

Session Type: Symposium

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Successful learning from expository text requires students to accurately monitor their text comprehension (i.e., metacomprehension accuracy). Inaccurate monitoring impairs learning because it results in maladaptive learning strategies and allocation of study time. Typically, students’ metacomprehension accuracy of expository text is poor. Therefore, research on factors that cause inaccuracy of metacomprehension is of major importance. This symposium sheds further light on relative and absolute metacomprehension accuracy by presenting a meta-analysis on relevant factors for relative accuracy, focusing on the incremental value of different metacognitive judgments in multimedia learning, addressing younger children’s monitoring accuracy with different types of questions, and exploring useful instructional materials for specific students.

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