To Understand Your Understanding, You Must Understand What Understanding Means
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چکیده
Although critical for the regulation of many reading and studying behaviors, metacomprehension accuracy is generally observed to be quite low. The present research examined how metacomprehension accuracy would be affected by practice tests designed to give readers expectations about the kind of tests they would be given, and self-explanation instructions to give readers access to valid cues for their metacomprehension judgments. Both manipulations improved readers’ ability to accurately judge their own level of comprehension for expository texts.
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