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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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Zhao, Qin; Linderholm, Tracy – Metacognition and Learning, 2011
Two experiments were conducted to investigate anchoring effects on metacomprehension judgments as a function of fictitious information participants received about past peer performance. In Experiment 1 participants were randomly assigned to one of the three anchor groups that, in some cases, provided past peer performance averages in terms of a…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Investigations, Experiments, Peer Evaluation
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Linderholm, Tracy; Zhao, Qin; Therriault, David J.; Cordell-McNulty, Kristi – Metacognition and Learning, 2008
Low accuracy levels are often obtained when readers are asked to predict test performance over reading materials. Three investigations further explore the information readers use to make predictions during metacomprehension. Our results show that readers' estimates are influenced by factors such as their initial impression of the reading task,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Materials, Test Items, Test Format