Metcalfe & Kornell (2003)

The Dynamics of Learning and Allocation of Study Time to a Region of Proximal Learning.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132(4), 530-542

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Metcalfe, J., & Kornell, N. (2003). The Dynamics of Learning and Allocation of Study Time to a Region of Proximal Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132(4), 530-542. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.132.4.530

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Metacognitive Control Metacognition

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Given free choice over study, people did not simply give most time to the hardest items, as discrepancy-reduction models predicted; they studied easy items first and spent most time on medium-difficulty items, which the region of proximal learning framework explains as study targeted at what is almost learned