The science of effective learning with spacing and retrieval practice

SK Carpenter, SC Pan, AC Butler - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2022 - nature.com
Research on the psychology of learning has highlighted straightforward ways of enhancing
learning. However, effective learning strategies are underused by learners. In this Review …

Children's overestimation of performance across age, task, and historical time: A meta‐analysis

M Xia, AMG Poorthuis, S Thomaes - Child Development, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Children tend to overestimate their performance on a variety of tasks and activities. The
present meta‐analysis examines the specificity of this phenomenon across age, tasks, and …

I know better! Emerging metacognition allows adolescents to ignore false advice

ME Moses‐Payne, J Habicht, A Bowler… - Developmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Adolescents aspire for independence. Successful independence means knowing when to
rely on one's own knowledge and when to listen to others. A critical prerequisite thus is a …

[HTML][HTML] Improving prospective memory in school-aged children: Effects of future thinking and performance predictions

M Cottini, D Basso, P Palladino - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, event-based prospective memory (PM) performance of children has been shown
to benefit from different encoding strategies such as imagining the execution of a future PM …

Do adolescents use choice to learn about their preferences? Development of value refinement and its associations with depressive symptoms in adolescence

ME Moses‐Payne, DG Lee, JP Roiser - Child Development, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Independent decision making requires forming stable estimates of one's preferences. We
assessed whether adolescents learn about their preferences through choice deliberation …

[HTML][HTML] Do Confidence Ratings Reactively Modify Children's Academic Assessment Performance? Negative Answer from a Three-Year Longitudinal Study

J Zheng, N Su, T Fan, B Li, W Zhao, X Hu, C Yang… - Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
The reactivity effect of metacognitive judgments on first-order task performance has received
increased research attention. Previous studies showed that soliciting retrospective …

A Longitudinal Study of the Development of Executive Function and Calibration Accuracy

M Goudas, E Samara, A Kolovelonis - Children, 2024 - mdpi.com
This longitudinal study examined the development of executive function and calibration
accuracy in preadolescents. This study's sample consisted of 262 students (127 females) …

I control my own english learning: Developing self-regulation in elementary ell using self-assessment and explicit strategy instruction

S Azatova - Teflin Journal, 2021 - search.proquest.com
This study examined the effectiveness of using self-assessment and explicit strategy
instruction to develop self-regulation in 4th grade lower-intermediate English Language …

Constructing the Self in Adolescence: Learning What We Like and What We're Like

ME Moses-Payne - 2024 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Self-concept refers to beliefs about our own abilities, traits, and preferences, and how we
perceive ourselves in relation to others. The quality and valence of these beliefs can have …

Persistent Overconfidence in Young Children: Impact of Magnitude and Peer Modeling.

T Arner, E Graham, M Baranski, IS Al Harthy… - … Research: Theory and …, 2022 - ERIC
Young children frequently exhibit persistent overconfidence when evaluating their own
physical and cognitive abilities. Although task persistence due to overconfidence may be …