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Metacognitive Judgment Skills and the Metacognitive Component of Self-Regulated Learning

A Person-Oriented, Multimethod Approach

Published Online:May 17, 2023https://doi.org/10.1026/0049-8637/a000274

Abstract

Abstract: Metacognitive judgments as part of metacognitive monitoring can be measured using different methods and show individual differences. Moreover, metacognitive judgments are highly related to the metacognitive component of self-regulated learning (SRL-MC). Nevertheless, it is unclear how metacognitive judgments are related to different ways of measuring SRL-MC. Adopting a person-oriented, multimethod approach, we measured three metacognitive judgment forms in a sample of 99 college students. Latent profile analyses resulted in four groups with differing profiles of these metacognitive judgment measures. Linking the profiles to performance, we could contextualize them within the unskilled- and unaware-effect and extend previous research on this effect. Regarding their relationship to SRL-MC, we found no differences for questionnaire values, microanalysis results, and strategy knowledge scores. These results are discussed with regard to the conceptual overlap of metacognitive judgments and SRL-MC.


Metakognitive Urteilsfähigkeit und die metakognitive Komponente selbstregulierten Lernens. Ein personenorientierter, multimethodaler Ansatz

Zusammenfassung: Metakognitive Urteilsfähigkeit als eine Komponente metakognitiven Monitorings kann über verschiedene Erfassungsmethoden gemessen werden und zeigt individuelle Unterschiede. Darüberhinaus steht die metakogntive Urteilsfähigkeit in engem Zusammenhang zur metakognitiven Komponente selbstregulierten Lernens (SRL-MC). Es ist jedoch unklar, wie die metakognitive Urteilsfähigkeit mit verschiedenen Methoden zur Erfassung von SRL-MC zusammenhängt. Im Rahmen eines personenorientierten multimethodalen Ansatzes wurden drei Formen der metakognitiven Urteilsfähigkeit bei N = 99 Studierenden erhoben. Latente Profilanalysen ergaben vier Gruppen, die sich im Hinblick auf die Formen der metakognitiven Urteilsfähigkeit sowie Leistung unterscheiden. Diese Profile können in Bezug auf den „unskilled and unaware“-Effekt kontextualisiert werden und erweiteren den bisherigen Forschungsstand zu diesem Effekt. Im Hinblick auf SRL-MC zeigten sich keine Unterschiede zwischen den Profilen in Fragebogenwerten, mikroanalytischen Erfassungen oder Scores des Strategiewissens. Die Ergebnisse werden im Hinblick auf die konzeptuelle Überschneidung von metakognitiver Urteilsfähigkeit und SRL-MC diskutiert.

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