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Metacomprehension accuracy for texts was greater after, rather than before, answering test questions about the texts—a postdiction superiority effect. Although postdiction superiority was found across successive sets of test questions and across successive texts, there was no improvement in metacomprehension accuracy after participants had taken more tests. Neither prediction nor postdiction gamma correlations with test performance improved with successive tests. Although the results are consistent with retrieval hypotheses, they contradict predictions made by test knowledge hypotheses, which state that increasing knowledge of the nature of the tests should increase metacomprehension accuracy.
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Pierce, B.H., Smith, S.M. The postdiction superiority effect in metacomprehension of text. Memory & Cognition 29, 62–67 (2001). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03195741
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