Article: Second-order judgments about judgments of learning.

IN THIS ARTICLE, we offer an advance for metacognitive research by introducing second-order judgments (SOJs), which provide a new perspective for exploring the processes and accuracy of metacognitive judgments in general and judgments of learning in particular. Judgments of learning (JOLs) are a person's predictions about the likelihood of correctly retrieving recently studied items on an upcoming test. These judgments have become one of the most intensely investigated of the metacognitive judgments (Koriat, 1997; Schwartz, 1994), partly because making them accurately can support the effective regulation of self-paced study (Thiede, 1999). Second-order judgments (SOJs) ...

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