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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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Händel, Marion; Lockl, Kathrin; Heydrich, Jana; Weinert, Sabine; Artelt, Cordula – Metacognition and Learning, 2014
This study investigated whether and, if so, how metacognitive knowledge can be assessed validly in students with special educational needs in a large-scale assessment like the German National Educational Panel Study. In total, 804 sixth-grade students including both regular school students attending the lowest track of secondary education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Disabilities, Special Needs Students
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Franks, Bridget A.; Therriault, David J.; Buhr, Miriam I.; Chiang, Evelyn S.; Gonzalez, Claire M.; Kwon, Heekyung K.; Schelble, Jenni L.; Wang, Xuesong – Metacognition and Learning, 2013
This study explored the abilities of 5th, 8th, and 10th graders, and College students to reason logically about what they read. Both students' metacognitive behavior (looking back at previously read text) and their performance on logical deduction questions were recorded and analyzed in a reading task. Conditional logic premises and deductive…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 8, Grade 10, College Students
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Janssen, Jeroen; Erkens, Gijsbert; Kirschner, Paul A.; Kanselaar, Gellof – Metacognition and Learning, 2012
This study investigated how students collaborate in a CSCL environment and how this collaboration affects group performance. To answer these questions, the collaborative process of 101 groups of secondary education students when working on a historical inquiry task was analyzed. Our analyses show that group members devote most of their efforts to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Activities, Interpersonal Relationship, Program Effectiveness
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Krebs, Saskia Susanne; Roebers, Claudia Maria – Metacognition and Learning, 2012
This multi-phase study examined the influence of retrieval processes on children's metacognitive processes in relation to and in interaction with achievement level and age. First, N = 150 9/10- and 11/12-year old high and low achievers watched an educational film and predicted their test performance. Children then solved a cloze test regarding the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Low Achievement, Metacognition, Scoring
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Tillema, Marion; van den Bergh, Huub; Rijlaarsdam, Gert; Sanders, Ted – Metacognition and Learning, 2011
Current theory about writing states that the quality of (meta)cognitive processing (i.e. planning, text production, revising, et cetera) is, at least partly, determined by the temporal distribution of (meta)cognitive activities across task execution. Put simply, the quality of task execution is determined more by "when" activities are applied than…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Measures (Individuals), Secondary School Students, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Dignath, Charlotte; Buttner, Gerhard – Metacognition and Learning, 2008
Due to new standards in fostering life-long learning at school, research has increasingly dealt with the promotion of self-regulated learning, resulting in a large number of intervention studies conducted at primary and secondary school. The current study aimed at investigating the impact of various training characteristics on the training…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Achievement, Effect Size, Secondary School Students