Related decorative pictures improve metacognitive monitoring accuracy for knowledge items in eighth-graders (Experiment 2), but not for transfer items¶
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q3 i? Eighth-grade students learning with related decorative pictures showed higher absolute accuracy (AC) and better discrimination (DIS) of confidence judgments for knowledge items than students learning without pictures. → Demian Scherer 2023
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Demian Scherer 2023¶
Demian Scherer, Annika Verkühlen, Stephan Dutke. (2023). Effects of related decorative pictures on learning and metacognition. Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-023-09618-8
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Randomized experiment with 75 eight-graders (n = 29 with pictures, n = 27 without after exclusions). Table 3 reports AC t(54) = 2.56, p = .013 and DIS t(54) = 2.31, p = .025 for knowledge items; bias did not differ between groups.
"Participants in the condition with related decorative pictures had a higher absolute accuracy (AC) of confidence judgments and showed a better discrimination of correct and incorrect responses (DIS) based on the confidence ratings (see Table 3)."
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Related Claims¶
- Related decorative pictures do not increase triggered or maintained situational interest; in Experiment 2 they reduced maintained interest — related
- Related decorative pictures do not enhance transfer performance in either experiment (null results for correctness and metacognitive monitoring) — related
- Reading a text with related decorative pictures yields more correct answers to knowledge items than reading the text without pictures (Experiment 1, university students) — related
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Related decorative pictures improve metacognitive monitoring accuracy for knowledge items in eighth-graders (Experiment 2), but not for transfer items |
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Related decorative pictures improve metacognitive monitoring accuracy for knowledge items in eighth-graders (Experiment 2), but not for transfer items |
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