Across-Task Relations Among Monitoring Judgments: Effects of an Embedded Learning Strategy on Monitoring Accuracy

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Abstract

Using a practice testing (PT) paradigm, this study examined the relations among metacomprehension and local and global metacognitive judgments during and after comprehension testing. Participants (N=390) were randomly assigned to one of four PT conditions: generation with recall (GWR); multiple-choice with feedback (MWF); multiple-choice without feedback (MNF); and control. Participants completed an assessment of prior knowledge, read a 1,000-word science text, and provided predictive, item-level, and postdictive judgments of comprehension performance. Predictive effects of learners’ global and local judgments were observed across the task. The serial mediated effect, representing the effect of PT condition on test judgment bias through metacomprehension and item-level bias, was significant only for those in the MWF condition. Implications for future research are discussed.

Authors

• D. Jake Follmer, West Virginia University

• Joseph C Tise, Texas A&M University