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Effects of collaboration and informing students about overconfidence on metacognitive judgment in conceptual learning
The effects of collaborative learning and informing students about the dangers of overconfidence on metacognitive judgments and conceptual learning...
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Motivating children to (pre)monitor: positive effects on monitoring accuracy?
When young children evaluate their confidence, their monitoring is often overoptimistic, that is, inaccurate. The present study investigated a...
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Attitudes toward learning communication skills among Iranian medical students
BackgroundAttitudes determine behavior, and alterations in attitude may result in behavioral changes. Medical students would benefit from learning...
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Effects of a teaching mode combining SimBaby with standardized patients on medical students’ attitudes toward communication skills
ObjectiveTo evaluate the effect of a teaching mode combining SimBaby with standardized patients (SP) on medical students’ attitudes toward...
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The role of achievement emotions for text comprehension and metacomprehension
When learning from text, it is important that learners not only comprehend the information but also accurately monitor and judge their comprehension,...
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The underconfidence-with-practice effect in action memory: The contribution of retrieval practice to metacognitive monitoring
When making memory predictions (judgments of learning; JOLs), people typically underestimate the recall gain across multiple study–test cycles,...
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Exploring the use of metacognitive monitoring cues following a diagram completion intervention
Studying texts constitutes a significant part of student learning in health professions education. Key to learning from text is the ability to...
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High-fidelity is not superior to low-fidelity simulation but leads to overconfidence in medical students
BackgroundSimulation has become integral to the training of both undergraduate medical students and medical professionals. Due to the increasing...
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Item performance across native language groups on the Iranian National University Entrance English Exam: a nationwide study
This paper reports on an investigation of differential item functioning (DIF) in the Iranian Undergraduate University Entrance Special English Exam...
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Effects of reading instructions on pre-service teachers’ judgment bias when learning from texts
Learning from texts means acquiring and applying knowledge, which requires students to judge their text comprehension accurately. However, students...
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The Impact of Educational Resources and Perceived Preparedness on Medical Education Performance
IntroductionUndergraduate medical education has evolved necessarily with the increasing utilization of technology and the availability of ancillary...
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The effects of procedural and conceptual knowledge on visual learning
Even though past research suggests that visual learning may benefit from conceptual knowledge, current interventions for medical image evaluation...
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Supporting college students’ metacognitive monitoring in a biology course through practice and timely monitoring feedback
The present study investigated the extent to which monitoring practice and timely monitoring feedback, contextualized in an online undergraduate...
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Changes in metacognitive monitoring accuracy in an introductory physics course
Student learning in introductory science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses is often self-regulated. For self-regulated...
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When competence and confidence are at odds: a cross-country examination of the Dunning–Kruger effect
Research has shown that some students who underperform in mathematics overestimate their performance, while others who excel in mathematics...
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Bird’s-Eye View of Cue Integration: Exposing Instructional and Task Design Factors Which Bias Problem Solvers
Solving problems in educational settings, as in daily-life scenarios, involves constantly assessing one’s own confidence in each considered solution....
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False certainty in the acquisition of anatomical and physiotherapeutic knowledge
BackgroundEfficient metacognitive monitoring, that is the monitoring of one’s own thought processes and specifically one’s state of knowledge, is...
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Subjective awareness of ultrasound expertise development: individual experience as a determinant of overconfidence
Medical decision-making requires years of experience in order to develop an adequate level of competence to successfully engage in safe practice....
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Scaffolding self-regulated learning from causal-relations texts: Diagramming and self-assessment to improve metacomprehension accuracy?
The accuracy of students’ relative comprehension judgments when reading texts is typically rather low. This has been ascribed to students grounding...
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Normative data and standardization of an international protocol for the evaluation of metacognition in Spanish-speaking university students: A cross-cultural analysis
A deeper understanding of what factors influence metacognition has never become more pressing than in today’s digital era, in which information flows...