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Gonny Schellings 《Metacognition and Learning》2011,6(2):91-109
This article discusses measuring learning strategies by means of questionnaires. In ‘multi-method’ research, in which think-aloud
measures are compared with questionnaires, low or moderate correlations are found. A conclusion often drawn is that learners
are not able to verbally report on their learning activities. Alternative explanations concern two other possibilities: first,
that different learning strategies may be measured by the two methods; second, that the measuring methods may be aimed at different learning tasks. Keeping these prerequisites in mind, we constructed a task-specific questionnaire directly based on a taxonomy for coding
think-aloud protocols in text studying. We found a higher correlation (r=.51) between the questionnaire and think-aloud protocols
than is regularly reported. A case-study, in which four students answered the questionnaire while thinking aloud, led to new
insights into why a questionnaire may lead to somewhat different ratings of activities than the think-aloud method. Based
on these results, task-specific questionnaires may be improved. Our studies involved a fair comparison between a questionnaire
and think-aloud protocols. We cautiously conclude that if task-specific questionnaires are meticulously constructed and examined
in new ways, they might become reasonably adequate alternatives for the labor-intensive think-aloud method in measuring learners’
learning strategies. 相似文献
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Metacognitive monitoring and regulation play an essential role in mathematical problem solving. Therefore, it is important for researchers and practitioners to assess students?? metacognition. One proven valid, but time consuming, method to assess metacognition is by using think-aloud protocols. Although valuable, practical drawbacks of this method necessitate a search for more convenient measurement instruments. Less valid methods that are easy to use are self-report questionnaires on metacognitive activities. In an empirical study in grade five (n?=?39), the accuracy of students?? performance judgments and problem visualizations are combined into a new instrument for the assessment of metacognition in word problem solving. The instrument was administered to groups of students. The predictive validity of this instrument in problem solving is compared to a well-known think-aloud measure and a self-report questionnaire. The results first indicate that the questionnaire has no relationship with word problem solving performance, nor the other two instruments. Further analyses show that the new instrument does overlap with the think-aloud measure and both predict problem solving. But, both instruments also have their own unique contribution to predicting word problem solving. The results are discussed and recommendations are made to further complete the practical measurement instrument. 相似文献
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It is widely recognized that metacognition is an important mediator for successful and high-level learning, especially in
higher education. Nevertheless, a majority of higher education students possess insufficient metacognitive knowledge and regulation
skills to self-regulate their learning adequately. This study explores the potential of reciprocal peer tutoring to promote
both university students’ metacognitive knowledge and their metacognitive regulation skills. The study was conducted in a
naturalistic higher education setting, involving 67 students tutoring each other during a complete semester. A multi-method
pretest–posttest design was used combining a self-report questionnaire, assessing students’ metacognitive knowledge and their
perceived metacognitive skilfulness, with the analysis of think-aloud protocols, revealing students’ actual use of metacognitive
strategies. Results indicate no significant pretest to posttest differences in students’ metacognitive knowledge, nor in their
perception of metacognitive skill use. In contrast, significant changes are observed in students’ actual metacognitive regulation.
At posttest, students demonstrate significantly more frequent and more varied use of metacognitive regulation, especially
during the orientation, monitoring, and evaluation phases. Furthermore, our findings point to an increase in more profound
and higher-quality strategy use at posttest. 相似文献
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Metacognitive strategies that enhance critical thinking 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The need to cultivate students’ use of metacognitive strategies in critical thinking has been emphasized in the related literature.
The present study aimed at examining the role of metacognitive strategies in critical thinking. Ten university students with
comparable cognitive ability, thinking disposition and academic achievement but with different levels of critical thinking
performance participated in the study (five in the high-performing group and five in the low-performing group). They were
tested on six thinking tasks using think-aloud procedures. Results showed that good critical thinkers engaged in more metacognitive
activities, especially high-level planning and high-level evaluating strategies. The importance of metacognitive knowledge
as a supporting factor for effective metacognitive regulation was also revealed. The contribution of metacognitive strategies
to critical thinking and implications for instructional practice are discussed. 相似文献
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Annemie Desoete 《Metacognition and Learning》2008,3(3):189-206
Third grade elementary school children solved tests on mathematical reasoning and numerical facility. Metacognitive skillfulness
was assessed through think aloud protocols, prospective and retrospective child ratings, teacher questionnaires, calibration
measures and EPA2000. In our dataset metacognition has a lot in common with intelligence, but planning measured with teacher
ratings plays a role above and beyond IQ. Moreover, we found that skills are generally related, but that it is more appropriate
to assess them separately. In addition, results show the value of an experienced teacher as actual measure of metacognitive
planning skills. Our dataset suggests convergent validity for prospective and retrospective child ratings, but no significant
relationship with the other metacognitive measures. Metacognitive skillfulness combined with intelligence accounts for between
52.9% and 76.5% of the mathematics performances. The choice of diagnostic instruments highly determines the predicted percentage.
Consequences for the assessment of metacognitive skills are discussed. 相似文献
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We explored relations between students’ epistemic beliefs, metacognitive monitoring and recall performance in the context
of learning physics through metaphor. Eighty-three university undergraduate students completed questionnaires designed to
measure their epistemic beliefs and prior knowledge about Newtonian physics. Students were epistemically profiled as rational,
empirical, or metaphorical in their approaches to knowing. Using a think-aloud protocol, students read a text on Newton’s
First and Third Laws. The text included metaphors as examples of the various laws described. Results revealed that students
profiled as metaphorical engaged in more metacognitive processing compared to students profiled as rational or empirical.
Moreover, path analyses revealed that metacognitive monitoring positively predicted recall performance. Results challenge
Muis’ (2008) consistency hypothesis; the ways in which knowledge is represented in text may be the linking factor for relations between metacognitive monitoring
and epistemic beliefs rather than the underlying epistemology of the domain. 相似文献
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Sabrina Vandevelde Hilde Van Keer Emmelien Merchie 《The Journal of educational research》2017,110(2):113-139
The authors explore the effects of student tutoring as an approach to provide support on self-regulated learning (SRL) to fifth- and sixth-grade students with a low socioeconomic or immigrant background. In total, 401 Flemish (Belgium) students participated. A quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest, and retention test control group design was used, combining teacher ratings, self-report questionnaires, and think-aloud protocols. The teacher rating results show a significantly positive effect from pretest to posttest for the experimental condition, but this was not maintained at the retention test. The questionnaire and think-aloud results reveal no significant effects on students’ SRL. However, differential effects depending on students’ motivational profile were found. This study illustrates the complexity of promoting SRL among primary school children with a low socioeconomic or immigrant background, recommending further research into conditions and factors influencing the effectiveness of student tutoring programs promoting SRL. 相似文献
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Joost Meijer Peter Sleegers Marianne Elshout-Mohr Maartje van Daalen-Kapteijns Wil Meeus Dirk Tempelaar 《Educational research; a review for teachers and all concerned with progress in education》2013,55(1):31-52
Interest in the role of metacognition has been steadily rising in most forms of education. This study focuses on the construction of a questionnaire for measuring metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive regulation and metacognitive responsiveness among students in higher education and the subsequent process of testing to determine its validity. Purpose The aim of the study was to construct an original instrument for measuring features of metacognition, henceforth referred to as the Awareness of Independent Learning Inventory (AILI), and further to establish the similarities and differences between this model and existing instruments for measuring metacognition. Sample The AILI questionnaire was distributed to 1058 students in various types of Teacher Training Institutes in the Netherlands and Belgium. The abridged English version of the questionnaire was administered to another sample of 729 students reading Economics and Business Administration at the University of Maastricht in the south of the Netherlands. Design and methods The AILI instrument was constructed on the basis of a facet design along two dimensions: components of metacognition and topics of concern to students in higher education. The data gathered with the instrument was analyzed by means of a generalisability study and a decision study, respectively. The validity of the instrument was investigated by using confirmatory factor analysis. Results The generalisability study showed that the reliability of the instrument was satisfactory. The decision study revealed that the number of items included in the questionnaire could be reduced substantially by leaving out two components of one of the dimensions in the facet design, without losing too much generalisability. The validity study showed that there was a considerable level of congruity between parts of the AILI questionnaire and the relevant parts of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ). Conclusions The AILI questionnaire is a reliable and valid instrument for measuring metacognitive knowledge, regulation and responsiveness. It is suitable for use in the evaluation of the effects of interventions that purport to increase metacognitive knowledge, regulation and responsiveness of students in higher education. 相似文献
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Joost Meijer Marcel V. J. Veenman Bernadette H. A. M. van Hout-Wolters 《Educational Research and Evaluation》2013,19(3):209-237
This article describes the construction of a hierarchical taxonomy of metacognitive activities for the interpretation of thinking-aloud protocols of students in secondary education, who studied texts on history and physics. After testing an initial elaborate taxonomy on a restricted number of protocols by multiple raters, it appeared that the interrater correspondence was well below par. The categories in the taxonomy were too highly specified. Categories were combined and tested on new protocols in a cyclic fashion. The revised taxonomy was then used for coding 16 history protocols and 16 physics protocols. Frequencies of occurrence of metacognitive activities were obtained, as well as judgements of the quality of the metacognitive activities of the participants. There is a reasonable correlation between the frequency method and the quality method for coding thinking-aloud protocols. Also, there is a substantial covariation of the number of metacognitive activities across both tasks. 相似文献
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The objective of the current studies was to investigate how epistemic cognition related to specific phases and components of self-regulated learning and its adaptation to learning conditions of varying quality. In a multi-study, mixed method design, we presented university students with science content that relayed conceptual discrepancies and collected quantitative and qualitative data to study how students responded to discrepancies. In Study 1 (n = 42), we collected eye tracking patterns, study times, and metacognitive ratings and found that participants adapted their behavioral processing as a function of their epistemic cognition and discrepancy type. In Study 2 (n = 20), we collected concurrent think-aloud protocols and retrospective interviews to further explore why discrepancies were noticed (or not) and how they were resolved. Results revealed that prior knowledge and epistemic self-efficacy in oneself as an evaluator of knowledge emerged as important themes to detecting and efficiently resolving discrepancies. We conclude with a discussion of theoretical and methodological implications. 相似文献
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Different constructs describe and analyze teachers’ diagnostic processes, in which situation-specific diagnostic skills are utilized to solve challenging situations of teaching and learning in class. This study compares two constructs—professional vision and diagnostic activities—with regard to their suitability for coding and analyzing data collected from interviews using think-aloud protocols with five in-service teachers, who worked in the video-based assessment tool DiKoBi Assess. For data collection, teachers watched a videotaped classroom situation on the biology-specific challenges level of students’ cognitive activities and creation of situational interest that both count as important subject-specific dimensions of instructional quality. Interviews using think-aloud protocols were transcribed and coded with distinct category systems for each construct. Analysis of coded data showed that both constructs covered several aspects of the diagnostic process. A crosstabulation of the coded data revealed that the combination of both constructs was best suited to describe and analyze the diagnostic process. 相似文献
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Norris A. Armstrong Carolyn S. Wallace Shu-Mei Chang 《Research in Science Education》2008,38(4):483-499
This study used both quantitative and qualitative analyses to examine the influence of written arguments on learning in a
college level introductory biology class and the types of metacognition employed by students while writing. Comparison of
a treatment and control group indicates that the writing assignments used had minimal impact on overall content learning as
measured by conventional exams. Subsequent interviews and think-aloud protocols with a subset of students indicated that writing
arguments had the potential to foster learning through forward and backward search strategies. However, few of the students
took advantage of this opportunity to use metacognitive skills. This study suggests that preparing written arguments is not
sufficient, by itself, to have a reliable effect on student learning and is consistent with the view that students must be
explicitly taught when and how to use different metacognitive strategies. 相似文献
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DeWayne Moore Karen Zabrucky Nannette Evans Commander 《Contemporary educational psychology》1997,22(4):457-471
Evidence for the factorial, convergent and discriminant, and criterion-related validity of the Metacomprehension Scale (MCS) was examined in a sample of 237 young adults. The instrument was factorially heterogeneous but exhibited homogeneity within each of the seven subscales. Evidence for the convergent and discriminant validity of the MCS was examined by correlating the subscales from the MCS with subscales from metacognitive questionnaires measuring similar constructs from related domains. In general, correlations within constructs were larger than correlations between constructs, providing preliminary evidence of the convergent and discriminant validity of the MCS. The criterion-related validity of the MCS relative to other metacognitive measures was examined by using the metacognitive measures and the MCS to predict comprehension performance. The MCS predicted performance better than the other measures of metacognition and accounted for variance in performance not accounted for by the other measures. These results show promise for the value of self-assessments of metacomprehension. 相似文献
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In the present study, we examined the reading activities of young readers, while reading an expository text. A total of 24 third-graders was administered a think-aloud task on two occasions. Their protocols were analysed by a coding system that captured two levels of the reading process: the word identification level and the reading comprehension level. Three indices reflecting three different types of reading activities were discerned: reading errors, reproduction, and activities referring to reading strategies. Correlational analyses showed the reading strategy index to be related to reading comprehension as measured by standardized tests. The think-aloud task constitutes a valuable instrument for examining strategic reading among young readers. 相似文献
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Hind A. M. Hammouri 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2003,28(6):571-586
Recent years have seen increasing interest in the role of metacognition in mathematical problem solving. The study described in this paper explored problem solving strategies used by undergraduates. Furthermore, cognitive/metacognitive processes are predicted each of holistic and analytic strategies. Educational sciences students (n=178) were asked to talk/think aloud while solving two constructed response transformational problems. The protocols were transcribed and analysed, revealing that the cohort used nine strategies. The results showed that a holistic strategy was predicted by five cognitive/metacognitive processes, two of which were suppressors; whilst an analytic strategy was predicted by four cognitive/metacognitive processes, three of which were suppressors. 相似文献
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Wolff-Michael Roth Maria Elena Oliveri Debra Dallie Sandilands Juliette Lyons-Thomas Kadriye Ercikan 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(4):546-576
Even if national and international assessments are designed to be comparable, subsequent psychometric analyses often reveal differential item functioning (DIF). Central to achieving comparability is to examine the presence of DIF, and if DIF is found, to investigate its sources to ensure differentially functioning items that do not lead to bias. In this study, sources of DIF were examined using think-aloud protocols. The think-aloud protocols of expert reviewers were conducted for comparing the English and French versions of 40 items previously identified as DIF (N?=?20) and non-DIF (N?=?20). Three highly trained and experienced experts in verifying and accepting/rejecting multi-lingual versions of curriculum and testing materials for government purposes participated in this study. Although there is a considerable amount of agreement in the identification of differentially functioning items, experts do not consistently identify and distinguish DIF and non-DIF items. Our analyses of the think-aloud protocols identified particular linguistic, general pedagogical, content-related, and cognitive factors related to sources of DIF. Implications are provided for the process of arriving at the identification of DIF, prior to the actual administration of tests at national and international levels. 相似文献
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Kerstin Haberkorn Kathrin Lockl Steffi Pohl Susanne Ebert Sabine Weinert 《Metacognition and Learning》2014,9(3):239-263
In metacognition research, many studies focused on metacognitive knowledge of preschoolers or children at the end of elementary school or secondary school, but investigations of children starting elementary school are quite limited. The present study, thus, took a closer look at children’s knowledge about mental processes and strategies in early elementary school aiming to extend findings on the respective age period. Therefore, at first, a new test that can be administered in group settings and that assesses a broad concept of children’s metacognitive knowledge in early elementary school was evaluated. Furthermore, analyses on the structure of metacognitive knowledge were carried out in cross-sectional as well as longitudinal analyses. In a longitudinal design, the new test instrument was administered to 870 children at the end of first grade and again one year later (N?=?720). Item Response models were used to evaluate the construct validity of the test. Test characteristics were checked based on different fit statistics, test fairness, and discriminant validity. In summary, the test exhibited good psychometric properties. Analyses on the dimensionality of the assessed metacognitive knowledge revealed that different strategies seemed to form rather distinct dimensions of metacognitive knowledge. However, these dimensions showed a rather homogeneous development from first to second grade. Impacts of the findings on theoretical considerations and on the theoretical understanding of metacognitive knowledge and further analyses with metacognitive competence data are discussed. 相似文献
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Jia-ling Charlene Yau 《Metacognition and Learning》2009,4(3):217-235
Integrating both quantitative and qualitative approaches, this study examined the knowledge and application of strategic reading
among Taiwanese adolescents learning to read English as a foreign language. A total of 144 Grade 11 students participated
in this study. Correlational analysis and t-tests were applied to analyzing quantitative data, including an English reading
comprehension test and two sets of reading strategy questionnaires; the constant comparative method (Glaser and Strauss 1967) was used for analyzing qualitative data, comprising semi-structured interviews and think-aloud protocols. Results from quantitative
analysis show a relatively strong link between the perceived use of first language (L1, Chinese) and second language (L2,
English) strategies. Nonetheless, metacognitive and cognitive strategies were reportedly used more frequently for L1 reading,
whereas support strategies were more often used for L2 reading. One salient theme that emerged from the qualitative analysis
is that the reading of the English texts more closely resembled the reading of the texts written in the classic literary style
of Chinese than the reading of the texts written in contemporary Chinese. These findings to some extent support the reading
universals hypothesis (Goodman in Journal of Typographic Reseach, 103–110, 1970); yet, skills transfer is not uniformly automatic (Bell in TESOL Quarterly, 687–704, 1995; Urquhart and Weir 1998). 相似文献
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《Learning and Instruction》2007,17(5):564-577
Although writing learning protocols is an effective follow-up course work activity, many learners tend to do it in a rather suboptimal way. Hence, we analyzed the effects of instructional support in the form of prompts. The effects of different types of prompts were investigated in an experiment with four conditions: cognitive prompts, metacognitive prompts, a combination of cognitive and metacognitive prompts, or no prompts (N = 84 undergraduate psychology students). We found that the prompts stimulated the elicitation of cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies. The provision of purely metacognitive prompts did not, however, improve learning outcomes. Only the groups who had received cognitive, or a combination of cognitive and metacognitive, prompts learned more than the control group. This effect was mediated by cognitive learning strategies. The learners in the successful groups did not perceive the prompted learning strategies as more helpful than the learners of the group without prompts. It can be concluded that cognitive prompts—alone or in combination with metacognitive prompts—are an effective means to foster learning. However, additional means should be employed in order to convince the learner of the usefulness of such prompts. 相似文献