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Beschreibung: For this project you will work on a meta-analysis. For this meta-analysis, you will analyse and synthesize research on the relation between children's and adolescents' metacognitive monitoring judgments (judgments of learning and confidence judgments) and control (often also referred to as regulation, e.g., measured with restudy decisions, study time allocation, help-seeking, decisions to maintain/withdraw responses). One main question would be to address the strength of the relation between judgments and subsequent control decisions/actions. Further questions would be to what extent the strength of this relation depends on the age groups under consideration, and on the measurement of monitoring and control. For this master thesis, you will work on reading literature, defining inclusion/exclusion criteria, systematically searching databases, selecting papers to include, coding research papers, conducting statistical analyses for the meta-analysis. Your master thesis will describe this process and the outcomes.
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Zeitrahmen: HS 2024 - FS 2025
Eingabedatum: 05.06.2024
Kontakt: Prof. Dr. Mariette van Loon, E-Mail

Beschreibung: In Fall 2024, we will start a longitudinal study on adolescents' metacognitive control. Specifically, we will address to what extent adolescents (age 12-13) can translate their judgments about their own performance into adaptive control actions (e.g., persisting with the task, restudying not-learned information, withdrawing incorrect answers). We collect data on metacognitive monitoring and control, and also social network data, to understand to what extent friends are more similar in their metacognitive control, and the development of this skills, than non-related peers. We follow the participants for three years. For your master thesis, you will use data for the first wave of data collection (year 1). You can for example focus on: (a) individual differences in adolescents' monitoring-based control, or (b) similarities between friends in metacognitive skills. You will have an active role in the project, i.e., you work with the team on the preparation of research materials, and you visit schools to collect data. You can then use this data for your master thesis. Note: All Master Students in this project need to attend the Research Colloquium, which takes place on September 16 and 17, 2024
Anzahl Arbeiten für dieses Thema: 2-3
Zeitrahmen: HS 2024 - FS 2025
Eingabedatum: 05.06.2024
Kontakt: Prof. Dr. Mariette van Loon, E-Mail