Generative activities improve students' monitoring accuracy but not their actual learning after restudy¶

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Currency · newest study 2020 · checked against its sources 2026-10-23 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

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q3 i? Although monitoring accuracy benefits from generative activities, students' actual learning after restudy does not, partly because comprehension-based regulation accuracy is low. → Janneke van de Pol 2020

Evidence¶

Janneke van de Pol 2020¶

Janneke van de Pol, et al. (2020). Mapping and Drawing to Improve Students’ and Teachers’ Monitoring and Regulation of Students’ Learning from Text: Current Findings and Future Directions. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09560-y

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The review's synthesis across studies: regulation decisions may follow monitoring judgments but do not match students' actual comprehension, so students may restudy texts they already understand or skip texts they do not. Two studies without restudy (Thiede et al., 2010; Wiley, 2019) did find higher test scores in generative conditions.

"Although monitoring accuracy seems to benefit from generative activities, students’ actual learning after restudy does not."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

Metacognition — outcome: instruction changes it

Generative and visualizing tasks improve metacomprehension and monitoring accuracy but show small or null effects on learning outcomes — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
Solving an isomorphic practice problem after studying a worked example improves prospective monitoring accuracy, with mixed effects on regulation accuracy — related
Sixth-graders' own monitoring accuracy is low and does not differ between no-cue, keyword, and summary cue-prompt conditions (Experiment 1). — related
Learners misjudge which learning strategies are effective — related
Rereading is less effective than retrieval practice — related
Retrieval practice mainly improves metamemory whereas generative activities mainly improve metacomprehension — related

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`title`	`Generative activities improve students' monitoring accuracy but not their actual learning after restudy`
`description`	`Generative activities improve students' monitoring accuracy but not their actual learning after restudy`
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