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Download full textCharmello, Catherine – 1993
A study examined the effects that a metacognitive strategy, self-questioning prediction, had on the improvement of reading comprehension. The sample included 17 eighth-grade students in a South Amboy, New Jersey middle school. The Gates MacGinitie Reading Comprehension Tests were administered as both pre- and posttests. There were three weekly…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Instructional Effectiveness, Junior High Schools, Metacognition
