Individual differences in relative metacomprehension accuracy: variation within and across task manipulations |
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| Authors: | Evelyn S Chiang David J Therriault and Bridget A Franks |
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| Institution: | (1) University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA;(2) Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Asheville, CPO 1630, One University Heights, Asheville, NC 28804, USA |
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| Abstract: | In recent decades, increasing numbers of studies have focused on metacomprehension accuracy, or readers’ ability to distinguish
between texts comprehended more vs. less well. Following early findings that suggested readers are fairly poor at doing so,
a number of studies have identified specific tasks to supplement a single reading of text that have resulted in greater metacomprehension
accuracy. One assumption underlying these studies is that, in the absence of such tasks, metacomprehension accuracy is uniformly
poor, and given their implementation, readers uniformly improve. Here we describe the individual variation that occurs both
in the absence (e.g., within a single text reading manipulation) and presence (e.g., within a rereading or selective rereading task manipulation) of these supplementary tasks (N = 214), in order to make a case for greater attention to individual differences in metacomprehension accuracy. We also introduce
a new manipulation in metacomprehension research, selective rereading, and argue that certain types of tasks may be more likely
to reveal individual differences in metacomprehension accuracy due to the nature of the task being more or less demanding
on working memory capacity. |
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