What can we conclude about college students' accuracy on measures of metacomprehension?
a. Students' metacomprehension is generally as accurate as their metamemory for learning pairs of English words.
b. Metacomprehension is about as accurate for reading comprehension as for other items on the verbal portion of the SAT.
c. Students are only slightly more confident about the items they answered correctly than the items they answered incorrectly.
d. There is no relationship between students' confidence about whether they answered an item correctly and their actual accuracy.
Question 2
Which of the following students provides the most accurate summary of the research on metacomprehension accuracy among college students?
a. Cheryl: Students' metacomprehension accuracy and their reading comprehension scores are significantly correlated.
b. Jacques: Students tend to underestimate their scores on a reading comprehension test.
c. Ed: Students are much more confident about the comprehension questions they answered correctly, compared to those they answered incorrectly.
d. Hannelore: Unfortunately, students' metacomprehension accuracy does not improve when they get feedback about their ability to assess their reading comprehension.
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