Keith Thiede

In order for learning to be effective, teachers must accurately monitor students' learning. Monitoring is important to making informed decisions about whether educational objectives have been reached by all students, and to identify which students may need additional help to reach their objectives. This research team, using a metacognitive perspective of teaching, believe that monitoring accuracy plays an important role in effective teaching-and that by improving the accuracy with which teac...

A great deal of student learning occurs in self-regulated activities such as reading or studying outside of a structured classroom context. For these activities, accurate metacognitive (self) monitoring is critical to effective study. If a student does not accurately differentiate well-learned material from less-learned material, he or she could waste time studying material that is already well learned, or worse, fail to restudy material that has not yet been adequately learned. However, st...