CALIBRATION OF COMPREHENSION - RESEARCH AND IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION AND INSTRUCTION

The ability to accurately evaluate one's understanding of text informa tion is critical for optimum learning to take place. One widely used p aradigm for examining the accuracy of individuals' self-assessed compr ehension has been termed calibration of comprehension. In this paradig m, students read a passage and are asked to make predictions about the ir future performance on a comprehension test. Calibration of comprehe nsion is the relation between students' confidence and performance or between predicted and actual performance. In the present paper we revi ew research on calibration of comprehension, examining a number of var iables that have been found to influence calibration ability. In the f irst three sections of our paper we focus on the effects of individual , task, and text variables on students' calibration of comprehension. In the final section, we discuss implications of research on calibrati on for education and instruction. (C) 1998 Academic Press.