The Effect of Summary Strategy and Information Amount in Developing Metamemory among a sample of Al-Qassim University Postgraduates
Journal Title: Asian Journal Social Sciences & Humanities - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
The study aimed at finding the effect of summary strategy and information amount in developing metamemory among a sample of al-Qassim university postgraduates. The sample included (240) postgraduate registered in a psychology course for the academic year 2014/ 2015, they were allocated randomly into four equal groups. The students were told to answer the metamemory pre-test questions, then the first group was exposed to a little amount of information and told to summarize the information immediately after reading; the second group received a large amount of information and summarized it immediately; the third group received a small amount of information and was told to summarize it after a (24) hour delay; the fourth group received a large amount of information and summarized it after a (24) hour delay. All groups received instructions to complete the metamemory posttest. Significant differences at (α=0.05) were found between delayed summary of the small amount of information and both of immediate summary for a large and a small amounts of information, in favor of delayed summary of a small amount of information. Statistical significant differences at (α=0.05) were also found between immediate summary of a large and a small amount of information in favor of immediate summary of a large amount of information in the ability to recall.
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Safaa Yadak
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