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A Metacomprehension Study: the Influence of Monitoring and Control on Text Comprehension

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dc.contributorBlack, Sheila R
dc.contributorMcDonough, Ian M
dc.contributorGarrison, Katie E
dc.contributorMorett, Laura
dc.contributorSalekin, Randy
dc.contributorTullett, Alexa
dc.contributor.advisorBlack, Sheila R
dc.contributor.advisorMcDonough, Ian M
dc.contributor.authorBrasfield, Mikenzi
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-14T17:30:19Z
dc.date.available2024-06-14T17:30:19Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
dc.description.abstractStudents may regulate their learning through monitoring and control. One measure of monitoring is relative metacomprehension accuracy. Low relative accuracy may negatively impact control. For example, students may show poor prioritization of material for restudy. Even if learners select appropriate material, they might employ suboptimal study strategies. In either case, students’ academic performance may suffer. I conducted Experiment 1 to test the influence of a situation model intervention (i.e., matching test expectancies) on relative accuracy, text selection, and text comprehension. I expected a serial mediation model to emerge from the data. I conducted Experiment 2 to examine the relationships between relative accuracy, text selection, and comprehension. Study strategy—rereading or self-explaining—was expected to interact with text selection to impact comprehension. I predicted that a conditional process model would emerge from the data. In Experiment 1, I divided participants into either a memory (n = 66) or comprehension (n = 65) test expectancy group. Participants read five texts and provided a monitoring judgment for each text. Then, they selected texts for restudy. Participants indicated the order in which they preferred to study the texts. Later, they completed a pre-test, a restudy phase, and a post-test. Participants were instructed to study/restudy by reading only. I modified this procedure for Experiment 2. All participants expected to take a comprehension test. However, one group (n = 40) was asked to restudy by rereading only. The other group was instructed to restudy by self-explaining the texts (n = 39). The proposed serial mediation and conditional process models were not supported. However, both experiments demonstrated that relative accuracy influences test performance. Additionally, Experiment 1 showed that relative accuracy affects text selection in accordance with a discrepancy reduction model. These findings highlight the need to explore the efficacy of situation model interventions as well as the mechanisms that underlie the relationship between relative accuracy and academic performance. Based on the results, I also encourage educators to frequently prompt students to monitor their understanding of to-be-learned material. Students may benefit from employing multiple situation model interventions while monitoring. Keywords: metacomprehension, relative accuracy, self-regulated learningen_US
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.other1053416
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/13829
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Alabama Libraries
dc.relation.hasversionborn digital
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections
dc.rightsAll rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated.en_US
dc.subjectmetacomprehension
dc.subjectrelative accuracy
dc.subjectself-regulated learning
dc.titleA Metacomprehension Study: the Influence of Monitoring and Control on Text Comprehensionen_US
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etdms.degree.departmentUniversity of Alabama. Department of Psychology
etdms.degree.disciplineCognitive psychology
etdms.degree.grantorThe University of Alabama
etdms.degree.leveldoctoral
etdms.degree.namePh.D.

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