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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Metacomprehension"”.
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Metacomprehension and reading proficiency
… of children dependent on their initial level of metacomprehension awareness. A pretest - posttest control group design was used. Subjects were 27 children in their third year of school (formerly called Grade 2, 6 and 7-year-olds) from two different multi-age classes in the same school. Children …
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Improving Metacomprehension And Learning Through Graduated Concept Mod
… are critical to learning. More so, individuals' metacomprehension accuracy is integral to making improvements to their knowledge base. In other words, without an accurate perception of their knowledge on a topic, learners may not know that knowledge gaps or misperceptions exist and, thus, would …
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A metacognitive approach to teaching reading comprehension in the primary school classroom
… It does so by evaluating the effects of a metacomprehension training programme on children's reading comprehension. In so doing the thesis draws together the three strands of theory, teaching practice, and educational policy (i. e., 5-14 English Language Guidelines, SOED, 1991) within the …
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WHAT IS IT THAT YOU KNOW WHEN "YOU KNOW"? COMPREHENSION GOALS AND COMPREHENSION MISMATCHES IN COLLEGE STUDENTS (STUDY BEHAVIORS, METACOMPREHENSION, TEST TAKING)
<p>The purpose of the present research was to investigate the comprehension mismatch experience as it related to students' comprehension goals and testing experiences. In Study 1, subjects reported their reading-related comprehension goals while studying a 3500-word text. A questionnaire was …
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Transforming Learning Into A Constructive Cognitive And Metacognitive
… queries exhibited significantly greater metacomprehension accuracy and more effective metacognitive self-regulation during training. Contrary to predictions, incorporating the high-level elaboration queries into the training consistently failed, with only a few exceptions, to produce …
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Age differences in search during self-regulated learning
While search is increasingly becoming a more central process in learning with the rise of electronic environments, little is known about how learners determine the points at which decide to move from one text to another. The current study aimed at examining how learners studying a domain in a …