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Soto, 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)
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Händel, Marion; Fritzsche, Eva Susanne – Educational Psychology, 2015
We report results of two studies on metacognitive accuracy with undergraduate education students. Participating students were asked to judge their personal performance in a multiple-choice exam as well as to state their confidence in their performance judgement (second-order judgement [SOJ]). In each study, we compared four conditions that…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Self Efficacy, Self Concept Measures, Undergraduate Students
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Al-Hamly, Mashael; Coombe, Christine – Language Testing, 2005
This study investigates whether the practice of answer changing on multiple-choice questions (MCQs) is beneficial to Gulf Arab students' overall test performance. The proficiency exam used in this study is the Michigan English Language Institute College English Test - Grammar, Cloze, Vocabulary, Reading (MELICET-GCVR), which was developed using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College English, Arabs, Multiple Choice Tests