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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Barenberg, Jonathan; Dutke, Stephan – Metacognition and Learning, 2013
Three field studies tested the hypothesis that anticipating a graded test as opposed to a pass-fail test enhances metacognitive monitoring. Participants were teacher candidates who completed a mid-term and a final test in psychology courses. Each participant chose whether the result of the final test should be evaluated with one of five grades or…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Tests, Grading, Metacognition
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Dutke, Stephan; Barenberg, Jonathan; Leopold, Claudia – Metacognition and Learning, 2010
In an experiment with 56 young adults, the hypothesis was tested that information about the format of an anticipated test improves metacognitive monitoring. Half of the participants were informed about the format of the test before they started studying a text about human genetics. The other half of the sample received the same information after…
Descriptors: Test Format, Prior Learning, Experimental Groups, Young Adults