Understanding the Delayed-Keyword Effect on Metacomprehension Accuracy

The typical finding from research on metacomprehension is that accuracy is quite low. However, recent studies have shown robust accuracy improvements when judgments follow certain generation tasks (summarizing or keyword listing) but only when these tasks are performed at a delay rather than immedia...

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Published in:Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition memory, and cognition, 2005-11, Vol.31 (6), p.1267-1280
Main Authors: Thiede, Keith W, Dunlosky, John, Griffin, Thomas D, Wiley, Jennifer
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition
Cognition & reasoning
Comprehension
Error of Measurement
Evaluative Thinking
Experiments
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Improvement Programs
Indexes
Intervals
Language
Male
Metacognition
Production and perception of written language
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reading
Reading Research
Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Self-Monitoring
Self-Regulated Learning
Vocabulary
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Summary:The typical finding from research on metacomprehension is that accuracy is quite low. However, recent studies have shown robust accuracy improvements when judgments follow certain generation tasks (summarizing or keyword listing) but only when these tasks are performed at a delay rather than immediately after reading ( K. W. Thiede & M. C. M. Anderson, 2003 ; K. W. Thiede, M. C. M. Anderson, & D. Therriault, 2003 ). The delayed and immediate conditions in these studies confounded the delay between reading and generation tasks with other task lags, including the lag between multiple generation tasks and the lag between generation tasks and judgments. The first 2 experiments disentangle these confounded manipulations and provide clear evidence that the delay between reading and keyword generation is the only lag critical to improving metacomprehension accuracy. The 3rd and 4th experiments show that not all delayed tasks produce improvements and suggest that delayed generative tasks provide necessary diagnostic cues about comprehension for improving metacomprehension accuracy.
ISSN:0278-7393
1939-1285
DOI:10.1037/0278-7393.31.6.1267