This article presents two longitudinal studies that investigated expertise reversal effects in journal writing. In Experiment 1, students wrote regular journal entries over a whole term. The experimental group received a combination of cognitive and metacognitive prompts. The control group received no prompts. In the first half of the term, the experimental group applied more cognitive and meta...

This study aimed to develop the Metacognitive Skills Assessment in a Research Proposal Writing Context (MSARPW), multidimensional measure, based on student perspectives, for assessing metacognitive skills thesis writing, and assess instrument’s psychometric properties using item factor analysis (IFA) response models. The 40-item MSARPW was administered 602 Indonesian university students (Mage =...

Journal writing is a promising follow-up to course-work. A learning journal is a written explication of one’s own learning processes and outcomes after a lecture or seminar session. To fully exploit the potential of journal writing, instructional support is required. Experimental studies showed that prompts are effective in optimizing journal writing. To investigate the long-term effects of pro...

Recent research suggests that incubation is superior to metacognition in tasks involving many decision alternatives (Dijksterhuis et al., 2006). One explanation for these findings is the limited information processing capacity of working memory. The current study further investigates this topic by using more complex tasks as many errors in Dynamic Decision-Making (DDM) are thought to be related...

One of the factors that can affect ability to write explanatory text is metacognitive awareness. By using descriptive method, students' level awareness was explained, and by correlational method effect towards writing explained. The results showed as many 25 students had a high while 38 others moderate relationship between variables significant very strong seen from range correlation values, na...