Solving an isomorphic practice problem after studying a worked example improves prospective monitoring accuracy, with mixed effects on regulation accuracy¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · review r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2020 · checked against its sources 2026-10-21 (automated, 2 of 2 entries) · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? In primary education, solving a practice problem after worked example study reduced overestimations of future test performance but did not improve regulation accuracy. → Tamara van Gog & Vincent Hoogerheide & Milou van Harsel 2020 q3 i? In secondary education, solving a practice problem after example study improved both monitoring judgments and accuracy of restudy choices. → Tamara van Gog & Vincent Hoogerheide & Milou van Harsel 2020 (2)

Evidence¶

Tamara van Gog & Vincent Hoogerheide & Milou van Harsel 2020¶

Tamara van Gog & Vincent Hoogerheide & Milou van Harsel. (2020). The Role of Mental Effort in Fostering Self-Regulated Learning with Problem-Solving Tasks. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09544-y

q3 · i? · review · r2

The review reports the Baars et al. (2014a) primary-education experiment: an isomorphic practice problem after worked example study "reduced their overestimations of their performance on a future test" but did not improve which examples students chose to restudy. No effect size is printed.

"providing students with an isomorphic practice problem after they had studied a worked example on how to solve a water jug problem improved their prospective monitoring accuracy (i.e., it reduced their overesti- mations of their performance on a future test). However, it did not improve their regulation accuracy"

Tamara van Gog & Vincent Hoogerheide & Milou van Harsel 2020 (2)¶

Tamara van Gog & Vincent Hoogerheide & Milou van Harsel. (2020). The Role of Mental Effort in Fostering Self-Regulated Learning with Problem-Solving Tasks. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09544-y

q3 · i? · review · r2

The review reports the Baars et al. (2017) secondary-education study on heredity problems, in which receiving a practice problem after example study improved both monitoring judgments and restudy choices. No effect size is printed.

"Adolescents who studied examples on how to solve heredity problems in biology and then received a practice problem to solve made more accurate monitoring judgments and were more accurate at indicating which examples they should restudy."

Discussion¶

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