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Ezgi Melisa Yüksel; C. Shawn Green; Haley A. Vlach – Metacognition and Learning, 2024
When students are left to choose their own approaches to studying, they frequently engage in ineffective learning strategies, such as rereading textbooks or cramming. Given this natural tendency amongst students, there has been significant interest in how to increase the use of more effective methods of studying. Efforts to-date have typically…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Metacognition, Intervention, Outcomes of Education
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Händel, Marion; de Bruin, Anique B. H.; Dresel, Markus – Metacognition and Learning, 2020
Extensive research has been conducted to understand how accurately students monitor their studying and performance via metacognitive judgments. Moreover, the bases of students' metacognitive judgments are of interest. While previous results are quite consistent regarding the importance of performance for the accuracy of metacognitive judgments,…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Metacognition, Personality Traits, Decision Making
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Gyllen, Justin G.; Stahovich, Thomas F.; Mayer, Richard E.; Darvishzadeh, Amirali; Entezari, Negin – Metacognition and Learning, 2019
The present work examines the accuracy of self-reports of study time for college students. In a 10-week Mechanical Engineering course, 99 college students accessed their textbook, homework solutions, graded work, and lecture slides via custom software that recorded objective measures of reading time. In addition, the students provided subjective…
Descriptors: College Students, Engineering Education, Study Habits, Reading Habits
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Wolters, Christopher A.; Won, Sungjun; Hussain, Maryam – Metacognition and Learning, 2017
The primary goal of this study was to investigate whether college students' academic time management could be used to understand their engagement in traditional and active forms of procrastination within a model of self-regulated learning. College students (N = 446) completed a self-report survey that assessed motivational and strategic aspects of…
Descriptors: Time Management, Metacognition, Predictor Variables, College Students
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Couchman, Justin J.; Miller, Noelle E.; Zmuda, Shaun J.; Feather, Kathryn; Schwartzmeyer, Tina – Metacognition and Learning, 2016
Students often gauge their performance before and after an exam, usually in the form of rough grade estimates or general feelings. Are these estimates accurate? Should they form the basis for decisions about study time, test-taking strategies, revisions, subject mastery, or even general competence? In two studies, undergraduates took a real…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Tests, Metacognition