Interventions to improve monitoring accuracy in problem-solving tasks have a small positive overall effect (g = 0.25)¶
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q4 i1 Across 35 studies, monitoring accuracy interventions combined have a small positive effect on students' monitoring accuracy in problem-solving tasks (g = 0.25). → Noortje Janssen · Ard W. Lazonder 2024
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Noortje Janssen · Ard W. Lazonder 2024¶
Noortje Janssen · Ard W. Lazonder. (2024). Meta-analysis of Interventions for Monitoring Accuracy in Problem Solving. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09936-4
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Random-effects meta-analysis of 35 independent studies (N = 3219) of interventions targeting monitoring accuracy in problem-solving tasks, using absolute accuracy as outcome. The pooled effect was small: "all interventions together had a small effect (Cohen, 1988) on monitoring accuracy" (g = 0.25, 95% CI [0.12, 0.37]).
"The overall mean effect size (g) of the 35 included studies was 0.25, SE = 0.06, 95% CI [0.12, 0.37]. This result indicates that all interventions together had a small effect (Cohen, 1988) on monitoring accuracy."
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Interventions to improve monitoring accuracy in problem-solving tasks have a small positive overall effect (g = 0.25) |
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Interventions to improve monitoring accuracy in problem-solving tasks have a small positive overall effect (g = 0.25) |
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