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Murphy, Dillon H.; Halamish, Vered; Rhodes, Matthew G.; Castel, Alan D. – Metacognition and Learning, 2023
Predicting what we will remember and forget is crucial for daily functioning. We were interested in whether evaluating something as likely to be remembered or forgotten leads to enhanced memory for "both" forms of information relative to information that was not judged for memorability. We presented participants with lists of words to…
Descriptors: Memory, Prediction, Recall (Psychology), Control Groups
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Fernandez, Jonathan; Jamet, Eric – Metacognition and Learning, 2017
In addition to serving summative assessment purposes, testing has turned out to be a powerful learning tool. However, while the beneficial effect of testing on learning performances has been confirmed in a large body of literature, the question of exactly how testing influences cognitive and metacognitive processes remains unclear. We therefore…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Control Groups, College Freshmen, Neurology
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Barzilai, Sarit; Ka'adan, Ibtisam – Metacognition and Learning, 2017
Learning to integrate multiple information sources is vital for advancing learners' digital literacy. Previous studies have found that learners' epistemic metacognitive knowledge about the nature of knowledge and knowing is related to their strategic integration performance. The purpose of this study was to understand how these relations come into…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Metacognition, Computer Literacy, Information Sources
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Strukelj, Alexander; Scheiter, Katharina; Nyström, Marcus; Holmqvist, Kenneth – Metacognition and Learning, 2016
An eye-tracking study with 60 native Swedish speakers (18-30 years) was conducted to investigate the positive effects on learning outcomes predicted by the disfluency effect. Subtle low-pass filtering was used as a disfluency manipulation and compared with a control condition using regular text. The text was presented on four separate text…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Eye Movements, Swedish, Native Speakers