Award Date
1-1-2006
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Educational Psychology
First Committee Member
Alice J. Corkill
Number of Pages
120
Abstract
Metacognitive monitoring may be a critical element in self-regulated learning. Two types of metacognitive monitoring have been identified: domain-specific and domain-general. Domain-specific metacognitive monitoring occurs when an individual is monitoring content-specific knowledge. Domain-general metacognitive monitoring occurs in situations when content-specific knowledge is not available. Currently no research is available that examines the developmental differences between domain-specific and domain-general metacognitive monitoring in children. This study attempted to address this issue by asking children in first, fourth, and seventh grade to make item-by-item confidence judgments while providing answers in two domain-specific tasks and two domain-general tasks. Two working memory spans tasks were also employed to control for maturational processes. Domain-specific metacognitive monitoring appeared earlier than domain-general metacognitive monitoring. Both domain-specific and domain-general metacognitive monitoring appear to benefit from experience because older students were more accurate metacognitive monitors and less overconfident than younger students. Maturational processes likely play a less significant role than experience in student improvement at metacognitive monitoring than previously thought.
Keywords
Development; Domain; Domain-specific; Metacognitive; Metacognitive Monitoring; Metacognitive Monitoring; Self-reflection; Specific
Controlled Subject
Educational psychology; Cognitive psychology; Developmental psychology
File Format
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2273.28 KB
Degree Grantor
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Language
English
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Repository Citation
Campbell, Brett Douglas, "The development of domain-specific and domain-general metacognitive monitoring" (2006). UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations. 2715.
http://dx.doi.org/10.25669/q8v3-9y1y
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