| Metacomprehension, the ability to monitor and regulate reading, can facilitate efficientstudying. Individuals have low relative accuracy, meaning they cannot adequately differentiatewell known from less well-known information. Delayed written summarization increases relativeaccuracy, so this study compared written summaries tooral summaries to test summary modality’s impact on metacomprehension accuracy. Summary modality can lead to differences insummary characteristics, and thus metacomprehension cues, which can influence relative accuracy. Participants in an oral, written, or no summary condition read andsummarized passages, judged their comprehension, and took a multiple-choice test on thepassages.Only the written condition exhibited relative accuracy significantly greater than zero. Out of the summary characteristics measured, word count and summary quality related to prediction magnitude, whereas word count and totaltime influenced relative accuracy. The results have implications for the accessibility and situation model hypotheses, and practicalapplications for study habits.Keywords:metacomprehension, summary modality, cue utilization, accessibility hypothesis, situation model hypothesis |