Understanding how students self-regulate their learning experiences has been at the
forefront of many empirical and theoretical advances in both cognitive and educational …

Solving problems in educational settings, as in daily-life scenarios, involves constantly
assessing one's own confidence in each considered solution. Metacognitive research has …

Extensive research has been conducted to understand how accurately students monitor
their studying and performance via metacognitive judgments. Moreover, the bases of …

Objective. To determine whether perception of student learning equates to learning gains.
Methods. Two-hundred seventy-seven college-aged students and student pharmacists …

Despite many research efforts dedicated toward deciphering the functional architecture
underlying metacognition, it is still unclear if there is a common metacognitive resource for …

Prior research has found gender differences in spatial tasks in which men perform better,
and are more confident, than women. Do gender differences also occur in people's …

It is frequently assumed that learner characteristics (eg, reading skill, self-perceptions,
optimism) account for overestimations of text comprehension, which threaten learning …

Metacognition, the cognition about cognition, is closely linked to intelligence and therefore
understanding the metacognitive processes underlying intelligence test performance …

It is well established that men more frequently exhibit over-confidence than women in
mathematics. Less is known about the relationship between gender and problem-specific …

A recent meta-synthesis study with a sample of> 12 million participants revealed that the
male advantage in mental rotation (MR) is the largest cognitive sex/gender difference found …