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Dunlosky, John; Rawson, Katherine A. – Learning and Instruction, 2012
The function of accurately monitoring one's own learning is to support effective control of study that enhances learning. Although this link between monitoring accuracy and learning is intuitively plausible and is assumed by general theories of self-regulated learning, it has not received a great deal of empirical scrutiny and no study to date has…
Descriptors: Definitions, Memory, Underachievement, Metacognition
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Nijhuis, Jan; Segers, Mien; Gijselaers, Wim – Learning and Instruction, 2008
The variability in deep and surface learning has been discussed as part of the trait vs. state debate. However, the question is to what extent students change strategies as a function of course demands. This study focused on discerning subgroups of learners with respect to variability in learning strategies and the role of students' learning…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies, Multivariate Analysis
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Vermetten, Yvonne J.; Vermunt, Jan D.; Lodewijks, Hans G. – Learning and Instruction, 2002
Studied the effects of a university educational reform project on students' learning and individual differences in students' responses to similar instructional measures. In 2 studies, involving 77 students and 84 in the final experimental group samples (original samples and control groups were somewhat larger), the reforms mainly failed to…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Higher Education