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Peer reviewedMulling, Sylvia – College ESL, 1994
Studies whether giving English-as-a-Second-Language college students practice in comprehension monitoring would improve their reading comprehension. Statistically equivalent pairs of subjects were formed. Five articles from daily newspapers were read by participants, who then took a quiz measuring their comprehension of article content. Results…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Collection, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Download full textTobias, Sigmund; Everson, Howard T. – College Entrance Examination Board, 2002
To date the authors have completed 23 studies of knowledge monitoring and its relationship to learning from instruction. Their earlier work, 12 studies in all, is summarized and reported elsewhere (see Tobias and Everson, 1996; Tobias and Everson, 2000). In this paper they continue this line of research and summarize the results of 11 studies that…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Knowledge Level, Learning, Academic Ability
