iSTART is an intelligent tutoring system designed to provide self-explanation instruction and practice to improve students’ comprehension of complex, challenging text. This study examined the effects of extended game-based practice within the system as well as the effects of two metacognitive supports implemented within this practice. High school students (n = 234) were either assigned to an iS...

The current study aimed to identify the effect of using metacognitive thinking in understanding moral concepts among eighth grade students Jordan. researcher used quasi-experimental approach developing comprehension ethical concepts. prepared a test measure sample, which consisted (72) two groups (control – experimental). reached several results, most important is existence an strategy for tent...

In education, the functions of reading, among others, are to access knowledge, synthesize information, evaluate arguments, and learn new subjects. It is believed that successful readers employ various proper reading strategies comprehend a text. To examine use metacognitive in academic comprehension, this study investigates performance major twenty-five vocational Indonesian lecturers from inst...

The present study investigated the potential of implementing reading strategy instruction in raising learner readers' awareness of reading strategies,  extending the range of strategies they employed and enhancing their reading comprehension ability. To conduct the study, 90 female pre-university students majoring in Natural Sciences were selected based on a convenient sampling procedure. After...

This paper reports on a case study that, in the course of exploring the metacognitive thinking and associated emotions of ten adolescents during the information search process, uncovered a social aspect to metacognitive knowledge. The study was framed by Kuhlthau's information search process model (1991, 2004) and the construct of metacognition (Flavell 1979). Using naturalistic methods the stu...