A Comparison of Non-Verbal and Verbal Indicators of Young Children's Metacognition

Autor/inn/en	Roebers, Claudia M.; Kälin, Sonja; Aeschlimann, Eva A.
Titel	A Comparison of Non-Verbal and Verbal Indicators of Young Children's Metacognition
Quelle	In: Metacognition and Learning, 15 (2020) 1, S.31-49 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Roebers, Claudia M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1556-1623
DOI	10.1007/s11409-019-09217-4
Schlagwörter	Verbal Communication; Nonverbal Communication; Metacognition; Young Children; Accuracy; Cognitive Ability; Associative Learning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Frühe Kindheit; Denkfähigkeit
Abstract	In the past decade, research increasingly uncovers emerging metacognitive skills in young children by using child-friendly, creative, and non-verbal measures of metacognition. In the present study, the now often used non-verbal "opt-out" paradigm and classical verbal metacognitive judgments (judgments-of-learning and confidence judgments) were used in the context of a paired associates learning task. Prospectively (before the memory test) and retrospectively (after recognition) N = 138 children (N = 72 5-year-olds; N = 66 6-year-olds) evaluated their performance. Results revealed evidence for existing metacognitive skills in their relative sense (discriminating correct from incorrect responses in the metacognitive measures) but poor metacognitive accuracy in absolute terms. The non-verbal opt-out measures were not found to consistently and substantially facilitate especially 5-year-olds' metacognitive skills. Correlating non-verbal and verbal measures revealed shared but also distinct, yet to be explained variances calling for a strongly differentiated concept of children's early metacognition. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01