This study focuses on different components of metacognition and their role in the expertise
of computer program comprehension. After the elaboration of the concepts of expertise and …

A large portion of computer programmers' efforts to maintain, test, and debug computer
programs is spent understanding, or comprehending, the existing program. Current theories …

We describe the second phase of an ongoing study whose aims are to explore how
computer science students solve problems and to understand the relationship between …

This article examines the effect of metacognitive instruction on students' achievement in
introductory programming courses over traditional predictors of performance. Metacognitive …

In this chapter, metacognitive skills are considered to be an organized set of metacognitive
self-instructions for the monitoring of and control over cognitive activity. These self …

Various disciplines have examined the many phenomena of metacognition and have
produced numerous results, both positive and negative. I discuss some of these aspects of …

The question of whether the use of good naming style in programs improves program
comprehension has important implications for both programming practice and theories of …

Comprehension of computer programs involves identifying important program parts and
inferring relationships between them. The ability to comprehend a computer program is a …

The present study investigated the validity of the Metacognitive Knowledge in Mathematics
Questionnaire (MKMQ), which taps the (1) metacognitive knowledge of the self …

This paper focuses on the transformation of general metacognitive skills of novices into
domain-specific regulatory procedures of experts, and the relation of those skills to …