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- Vol 4 RE: App D
regulated learningtemporal processesadaptive regulationmultimodal dataprocess tracingmetacognitive monitoringphysiological measurestemporal alignmentJournal article Evidence summaryAt a glance
Järvelä and Bannert argue that regulated learning must be studied as a temporal and adaptive process rather than inferred only from retrospective questionnaires or final outcomes. Learners and groups continually interpret tasks, set goals, monitor cognition, motivation, emotion, and behaviour, and adjust strategies when conditions change.
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Multimodal data—such as trace logs, discourse, video, eye movement, physiological measures, and self-reports—can reveal complementary aspects of these otherwise partly hidden processes. The promise lies not in collecting more streams indiscriminately but in aligning theory, timescale, units of analysis, and methods for detecting meaningful events and sequences. Data sources differ in what they measure and cannot automatically identify regulation; physiological synchrony or a click, for example, requires contextual interpretation. Researchers must integrate temporally aligned evidence, distinguish individual, co-regulated, and socially shared activity, and validate computational indicators against theoretically meaningful human judgements.
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The article outlines methodological opportunities and cautions rather than offering a single predictive model. Its central agenda is adaptive support: process evidence may eventually help recognise when regulation is needed and provide well-timed scaffolds without oversimplifying learning.
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- Vol 1 RE: Chapters 1, 3
- Vol 1 TE: App A
metacognitive monitoringjudgements of learningretrieval fluencyillusion of competencecue-target accessibilitya posteriori coherenceretrieval practiceJournal article Evidence summaryAt a glance
Koriat and Bjork examine why learners can feel more competent during study than later tests justify. Judgements of learning are often made while both a cue and its target are visible, whereas testing presents the cue alone and requires target retrieval.
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Features that make the pair seem strongly related in the presence of the answer can inflate confidence even when the cue is weak at eliciting that answer independently. Across paired-associate experiments, participants’ predictions were influenced by the apparent association from cue to target and failed to discount privileged access to the target during study. This creates an illusion of competence: fluent processing and perceived relatedness are mistaken for retrievability. The authors distinguish a priori cue-to-target accessibility from a posteriori coherence experienced after the answer is shown.
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More diagnostic monitoring requires recreating test conditions, for example by delaying judgements, hiding the target, attempting retrieval, and then checking the response. The findings concern specific laboratory tasks but explain a broad study error: rereading with answers present can feel convincing while providing poor evidence that knowledge can be produced later without support.
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