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Owner: Corinna Schuster
Owner Email: corinna.schuster@rub.de
Paper Title: Transfer of Metacognitive Strategies in Self-Regulated Learning
Session Title: Research in Self-Regulated Learning
Paper Type: Poster Presentation
Presentation Date: 4/8/2019
Presentation Location: Toronto, Canada
Descriptors: Metacognition, Self-directed Learning, Teaching and Learning
Methodology: Quantitative
Author(s): Corinna Schuster, Ruhr University Bochum; Ferdinand Stebner, Ruhr University Bochum; Joachim Wirth, Ruhr University Bochum; Detlev Leutner, University of Duisburg-Essen
Unit: SIG-Studying and Self-Regulated Learning
Abstract: Meta-analyses have highlighted the importance of metacognitive strategies in learning. However, little is known about whether students transfer metacognitive strategies in order to apply cognitive strategies more successfully. In this experimental study, we taught students over one half school term how to use metacognitive strategies when applying cognitive strategies like conducting experiments or reading science texts. After, we examined whether those students automatically transfer the metacognitive strategies to a new cognitive strategy that was taught in the second half school term. Results show that students transferred metacognitive strategies to the new cognitive strategies on a weak level. In terms of school, more holistic concepts are needed in order to support the transfer of metacognitive strategies to different cognitive strategies.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3102/1437295