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We investigated the relationship between the ability to comprehend text and the ability to predict future performance and to assess past performance on text. Subjects were poor at predicting performance, which may be why prediction accuracy did not relate to measures of comprehension ability. Measures of comprehension ability did relate to the accuracy with which subjects assessed their performance on tests. Better and faster comprehenders judged their relative levels of test performance over sections of text more accurately than did poorer and slower comprehenders.
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We are grateful to Morton A. Gernsbacher for providing the slides and other materials for the Multi-Media Comprehension Battery. We also thank Joel Bartholomay, Nia Olson, and Jodie Rheault for testing some of the subjects.
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Maki, R.H., Jonas, D. & Kallod, M. The relationship between comprehension and metacomprehension ability. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 1, 126–129 (1994). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03200769
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