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Griffin, Thomas D.; Wiley, Jennifer; Thiede, Keith W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
A set of four experiments assessed the effects of establishing a comprehension-test expectancy (in contrast to a memory-test expectancy) on relative metacomprehension accuracy. Typically readers show poor relative metacomprehension accuracy while learning from text (i.e., they are unable to discriminate topics they have understood well from topics…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Metacognition, Tests, Expectation
Armstrong, Sandra; Rentz, Tina – 2002
This report describes a project for improving students' listening and motivation. The action research took place from September 2001 through January 2002. The targeted first grade reading and eighth grade physical education students live in rural, Midwestern, middle- to high-income communities located in central Illinois. The problem was that…
Descriptors: Action Research, Grade 1, Grade 8, Instructional Effectiveness