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Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

Strategy monitoring

Overview

  • Influence: Strategy monitoring
  • Domain: Student Learning Strategies
  • Sub-Domain: Meta-cognitive/self-regulated learning
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
  • Influence Definition: A metacognitive practice whereby a student monitors her or his own strategies to complete a task. It often involves students being trained both in problem-solving techniques and in monitoring techniques (through which they observe how and whether they are following problem-solving protocols).

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 2
  • Number of studies: 235
  • Number of students: 0
  • Number of effects: 235
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.54
  • Robustness index: 3

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Dissertation Lavery New Zealand Self-regulated learning for academic success: An evaluation of instructional techniques 2008 Self monitoring 154 0 154 0.45
Educational Research Review Donker, de Boer, Kostons, van Ewijk, & Van der Werf Netherlands Effectiveness of Learning Strategy Instruction on Academic Performance: A Meta-Analysis 2014 Monitoring & control 81 0 81 0.71
TOTAL/AVERAGE 235 0 235 0.58
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