TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schneider, Wolfgang
A1  - Borkowski, John G.
A1  - Kurtz, Beth E.
A1  - Kerwin, Kathleen
T1  - Metamemory and motivation: a comparison of strategy use and Performance in German and American children
N2  - No abstract available
KW  - Psychologie
Y1  - 1986
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-62031
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TY  - JOUR
A1  - Carr, Martha
A1  - Kurtz, Beth E.
A1  - Schneider, Wolfgang
A1  - Turner, Lisa A.
A1  - Borkowski, John G.
T1  - Strategy acquisition and transfer among American and German children: Environmental influences on metacognitive development
N2  - This study explored the differential effects of strategy training on German and American elementaryschool children and assessed the role of parents in the development of their children's strategic behavior and metacognition. 184 German and 161 American children were pretested on memory and metamemory tasks. Children were then assigned to either an organizational strategy training condition or a control condition. All children were tested on the maintenance and far-transfer of the strategy and task-related metamemory 1 week following training. Parents completed questionnaires about strategy instruction in the home. Strategy maintenance and metacognition were reassessed 6 months following training. German children were more strategic than American children. Instructed children performed better than control children. German parents reported more instruction of strategies in the home. These data suggest that formal education is responsible for aspects of cognitive development that have sometimes been viewed as a function of age.
KW  - Psychologie
Y1  - 1989
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-62082
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TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kurtz, Beth E.
A1  - Schneider, Wolfgang
A1  - Carr, Martha
A1  - Borkowski, John G.
A1  - Rellinger, Elizabeth
T1  - Strategy instruction and attributional beliefs in West Germany and the United States: Do teachers foster metacognitive development?
N2  - Previous research has shown German children to be more strategic on sort-recall memory tasks than their American age-mates, and to show fewer effort-related attributions. We conducted this study to determine if those differences are due to systematic differences in the strategy instruction and attributional beliefs of German and U.S. teachers, and to explore metacognitive instructional practices in the two countries. Teachers responded to a questionnaire that inquired about their use of strategy instructions, fostering of reflective thinking in pupils, sources of children’s learning problems, and modeling of metacognitive skills such as monitoring. The second part of the questionnaire asked about the reasons underlying children’s academic successes and failures. German teachers reported more instruction of task-specific strategies, while American teachers showed more effort-related attributions. The types of strategies instructed and types of learning problems most frequently described varied across the two countries, and also according to how many years the teachers had taught. Results were discussed regarding their implications for metacognitive developmental theory, particularly regarding culture and other environmental influences on the development of controlled processing.
KW  - Psychologie
Y1  - 1990
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-62145
ER  -