Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to A E Minnaert.
A regression model was tested to examine the relation between uncertainty about choice of study and regulation activities in three groups of freshmen (N = 566). Invariance of regression coefficients, intercept, and residual error terms over groups was found. The strongest explanatory variable of uncertainty about choice of study was lack of regulation.
This study investigated the relationship between reading comprehension and comprehension monitoring with undergraduates (223 women, 69 men). Further, the effect of test anxiety and of prior knowledge on reading comprehension and on comprehension monitoring was examined in groups of students of equal intellectual ability. Students with high scores on reading comprehension performed better on a comprehension monitoring task as well. Individual differences in reading comprehension with a multiple-choice response format emerged as a function of the interaction between test anxiety and prior knowledge. Students with low prior knowledge and high test anxiety performed worst of all. We found a far less detrimental effect of test anxiety and prior knowledge on monitoring comprehension than on reading comprehension.