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Psychologisches Institut Metakognitive Entwicklung von Kindern und Jugendlichen

Themen für Masterarbeiten

  • Informationen zur Masterarbeit
    In der folgenden Übersicht finden Sie Themenbereiche, Einzelthemen und ev. extern betreute Einzelthemen vor. Bei Interesse wenden Sie sich bitte an eine der genannten Kontaktpersonen.
    (Bitte fügen Sie Ihrer Bewerbung für eine Masterarbeit neben einem kurzen Lebenslauf auch ein ca. einseitiges Motivationsschreiben bei, in welchem Sie erklären, warum Sie sich für das Forschungsprojekt bewerben)
    Für die Masterarbeit müssen Sie mindestens zwei Semester einplanen.
    Betreuungsperson der Masterarbeit: Prof. Dr. M. van Loon

Übersicht der Masterarbeitsthemen dieser Professur

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offen:

  • Adolescents' Metacognitive Control: Effects of Individual and Social Factors

    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
    Kontakt: Prof. Dr. Mariette van Loon, E-Mail

    Status: offen (erfasst / geändert: 21.08.2024)
  • The development of monitoring-based-control from childhood to adolescence: A meta-analysis

    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.

    Kontakt: Prof. Dr. Mariette van Loon, E-Mail

    Status: offen (erfasst / geändert: 05.06.2024)

 


vergeben:

  • Understanding Metacognitive Monitoring and Control Skills in Adolescence

    Beschreibung: Particularly during adolescence, people have to be increasingly able to self-monitor and independently and strategically control their learning in and beyond the school context. For this master project, you will collaborate with a research team on a project focusing on adolescents' ability to self-monitor and control their learning processes. The main aim is to obtain insights into the development of metacognitive monitoring and control skills in adolescents aged 12 to 15. Data will be collected during spring 2024. We use a repeated measurement design; participants will participate three times. Metacognition (monitoring judgments and control decisions/actions) will be measured on-task, employing two distinct types of tasks. As a master's student, active involvement in developing research materials and collecting and coding data is expected. For your master thesis, you can use the collected data to address different research questions such as: Are there age differences (indicating developmental improvement) in monitoring and control skills? How are control decisions and actions based on self-monitoring judgments? How stable are monitoring and control over the three measurement points, and why do some persons vary more than others from moment to moment? How generalizable are monitoring and control across tasks? How are monitoring and control skills related to academic performance in school? The master thesis can be written in English or German. Keywords: Adolescence, Metacognitive Monitoring, Metacognitive Control, Age Differences.
    Anzahl Arbeiten für dieses Thema: 3
    Zeitrahmen: Master students will start in February 2024 and will need to be actively involved in data collection from April - June 2024
    Eingabedatum: 01.12.2023
    Kontakt: Mariette van Loon, E-Mail

    Status: vergeben (erfasst / geändert: 05.06.2024)