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Meta-cognition strategies

Overview

  • Influence: Meta-cognition strategies
  • Domain: Student Learning Strategies
  • Sub-Domain: Meta-cognitive/self-regulated learning
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
  • Influence Definition: Meta-cognition is thinking about thinking; includes methods used to help students understand the way they learn.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 18
  • Number of studies: 863
  • Number of students: 1,291,260
  • Number of effects: 2,175
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.52
  • Robustness index: 5

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Educational Researcher Haller, Child & Walberg USA Can comprehension be taught? A quantitative synthesis of "metacognitive" studies 1988 Meta-cognitive training programs in reading 20 1,553 20 0.71
ERIC Chiu USA Synthesizing Metacognitive Interventions: What Training Characteristics Can Improve Reading Performance?. 1998 Meta-cognitive interventions in reading 43 3,475 123 0.67
Dissertation Fan USA Metacognition and comprehension: a quantitative synthesis of metacognitive strategy instruction 1993 Metacognitive training on reading comprehension 41 3,219 223 0.56
Review of Educational Research Jacob & Parkinson USA The Potential for School-Based Interventions That Target Executive Function to Improve Academic Achievement: A Review 2015 Executive functioning 67 15,879 67 0.63
Review of Educational Research Jacob & Parkinson Netherlands The potential for school-based interventions that target executive function to improve academic achievement: A review.  2015 Learning strategies on achievement 58 0 180 0.66
Dissertation Rongtao China Metacognitive strategy training and Chinese EFL learners' writing: Meta-analysis 2011 Learning strategies on writing 11 768 11 0.77
Report Chaury USA The effects of strategy instruction on reading comprehension in English as a foreign language 2015 Strategy instruction on reading comprehension 10 865 19 0.60
Southeast Linguistic Journal Baek Korea The effects of meta-cognitive strategies instruction in Korean education: Systematic review through meta-analysis. 2018 Metacognitive strategies 19 0 19 0.79
Educational Psychology Review Muncer, Higham, Gosling, Cortese, Wood-Downie, & Hadwin UK A meta-analysis investigating the association between metacognition and math performance in adolescence.  2021 Metacognition and math 31 0 31 0.80
International Journal on Studies in Education Antonio & Prudente Phillipines Effectiveness of metacognitive instruction on students' science learning achievement: A meta-analysis 2022 Metacognition in science 10 0 10 0.81
Children and Youth Services Review Lei, Chiu, Li, Wang, & Geng China Computational thinking and academic achievement: A meta-analysis among students 2020 Computational thinking 34 8,946 34 0.60
Asia Pacific Education Review Kim, Kim, Lee, Park, Hong, & Kim Korea Asia Pacific Education Review 2008 Learning strategies 71 0 71 0.53
Dissertation Fauzan UK The effects of metacognitive strategies on reading comprehension: A quantitative synthesis an the empirical investigation. 2003 Metacognitive strategies on comprehension 27 0 82 0.50
Frontiers in psychology Scionti, Cavallero, Zogmaister, & Marzocchi Italy Is cognitive training effective for improving executive functions in preschoolers? A systematic review and meta-analysis 2020 Cognitive training in executive functioning 27 0 123 0.34
Journal of Educational Psychology Greene, Cartiff, & Duke USA A meta-analytic review of the relationship between epistemic cognition and academic achievement 2018 Epistemic knowing 132 55,418 752 0.33
Teaching and Teacher Education Kyriakides, Christoforou & Charalambous Cyprus What matters for student learning outcomes: A meta-analysis of studies exploring factors of effective teaching 2013 Learning strategies on achievement 167 1,182,117 291 0.36
Learning and Individual Differences Yeniad, Malda, Mesman, van IJzendoorn, & Pieper Netherlands Shifting ability predicts math and reading performance in children: A meta-analytical study 2013 Shifting in Math achievement 20 4,596 34 0.47
Developmental Psychology Allan, Hume, Allan, Farrington, & Lonigan USA Relations Between Inhibitory Control and the Development of Academic Skills in Preschool and Kindergarten: A Meta-Analysis 2014 Inhibitory control in early years 75 14,424 85 0.56
TOTAL/AVERAGE 863 1,291,260 2,175 0.59
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