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Direct linkKleider-Tesler, Einat; Prior, Anat; Katzir, Tami – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2019
The current study examined the effects of a computerized training program on reading comprehension, confidence ratings, and calibration of comprehension in adolescents with poor and good reading comprehension. Ninety 10th graders participated in the study and completed three training sessions. In each session, participants read two expository…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Adolescents, Computer Assisted Instruction
Download full textSoto, Christian; Poblete, M. Fernanda Rodríguez; de Blume, Antonio P. Gutierrez – International Journal of Special Education, 2018
The purpose of this investigation was to explore the importance of different meta-comprehension aspects in students with intellectual disabilities, and to determine which one of them can best explain their performance on reading comprehension. For this purpose, metacognitive measurement instruments, an inconsistency detection tasks, and confidence…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Reading Comprehension, Standardized Tests, Regression (Statistics)
Peer reviewedPressley, Michael; Ghatala, Elizabeth S. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1988
Investigates whether college readers are aware of their performance following multiple-choice comprehension tests. Certainty ratings were more consistent with students' actual performance for opposites and analogies than for comprehension test items. (SR)
Descriptors: College Students, Confidence Testing, Higher Education, Multiple Choice Tests
Peer reviewedReinking, David – Reading Research Quarterly, 1988
Investigates whether readers comprehend a text better when it is displayed conventionally (on printed pages) or computer-mediated (offering the reader access to additional information, or controlling the reader's processing of the text). Comprehension scores were significantly higher for readers of the computer-mediated, computer-assisted texts.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Confidence Testing, Elementary Education, Grade 5
Peer reviewedKulhavy, Raymond W.; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1979
The role of feedback, opportunity for text review, and confidence in subjects' responses was examined using a 25-frame program on heart disease. Undergraduates participated in a pre- post-test design; all subjects received an immediate post-test. Results replicated and extended a model relating feedback, confidence, and post-test response.…
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Feedback, Higher Education, Learning
