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MEMORY
Volume 16, Issue 2, Pages 125-136Publisher
PSYCHOLOGY PRESS
DOI: 10.1080/09658210701763899
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Self-regulation of study activities is a constant in the lives of students who must decide what to study, when to study, how long to study, and by what method to study. We investigated self-regulation in the context of a common study method: flashcards. In four experiments we examined the basis and effectiveness of a metacognitive strategy adopted almost universally by students: setting aside (dropping) items they think they know. Dropping has a compelling logic-it creates additional opportunities to study undropped items-but it rests on two shaky foundations: students' metacognitive monitoring and the value they assign to further study. In fact, being allowed to drop flashcards had small but consistently negative effects on learning. The results suggest that the effectiveness of self-regulated study depends on both the accuracy of metacognitive monitoring and the learner's understanding, or lack thereof, of how people learn.
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