Solving problems in educational settings, as in daily-life scenarios, involves constantly
assessing one's own confidence in each considered solution. Metacognitive research has …

This study tested how prompting learners to compare their drawings to instructional visuals
affects their perceived and actual performance. Undergraduates (n= 116) created two …

Prior research suggests most students do not glean valid cues from provided visuals,
resulting in reduced metacomprehension accuracy. Across 4 experiments, we explored how …

Studying texts constitutes a significant part of student learning in health professions
education. Key to learning from text is the ability to effectively monitor one's own cognitive …

This study explored how different formats of instructional visuals affect the accuracy of
students' metacognitive judgments. Undergraduates (n= 133) studied a series of five biology …

This study investigates how to guide students' drawing diagram activities as constructing
explanations in science classrooms from the metafunctions in systemic functional language …

Are you overwhelmed by the amount of paperwork that SEN generates in your school?
Would you like to spend more time actually improving the quality of teaching and learning for …

The accuracy of comprehension monitoring affects the effectiveness of rereading, which in
turn affects comprehension. Thus, much research has focused on finding ways to improve …

This chapter presents applications of the research on text comprehension in educational
settings. The discussion starts by pointing out advantages and disadvantages of …

Author Note Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to R. Ackerman.
Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa …