A Bibliography on Metacognition and Reading


Adams, M. (1989). Teaching thinking to chapter I students, Center for the Study of Reading.

Adams, M. (1989). "Thinking skills curricula: Their promise and progress." Educational Psychologist 24: 25-77.

Baker, L., & Brown, A. L. (1984). Metacognitive skills and reading. Handbook of reading research. P. D. Pearson. New York, Longman.: 353-394.

Baker, L. (1989). "Metacognition, comprehension monitoring, and the adult reader." Educational Psychology Review 1(12): 3-38.

Beder , H. W. and T. Valentine (1990). "Motivational profiles of Adult Basic Education students." Adult Education Quarterly 40(2): 78-94.

Brown, A. L. (1978). Knowing when, where and how to remember: A problem of metacognition. Advances in instructional psychology: Vol 1. R. Glaser. Hillsdale, N. J., Erlbaum: 77-165.

Brown, A. L. (1980). Metacognitive development and reading. Theoretical issues in reading comprehension. R. J. Spiro, B. Bruce and W. Brewer. Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Byrd, D. and B. Gholson (1985). "Reading, memory and metacognition." Journal of Educationl Psychology 77: 428-436.

Calfee, R. (1982). "Literacy and illiteracy: Teaching the nonreader to survive in the modern world." Annals of Dyslexia 32: 71-92.

Cox, B. E. "Adolescent/adult advanced and basic readers' use of complex structures to write text." .

Cull, W. L. and E. B. Zechmeister (1994). "The learning ability paradox in adult metamemory research: Where are the metamemory differences between good and poor learners?" Memory and Cognition 22(2): 249-257.

Day, J. D. (1986). "Teaching summarization skills: Influence of student leveland strategy difficulty." Cognition and Instruction 3: 193-210.

Devolder, P. A. and M. Pressley (1992). "Causal attributions and strategy use in relation to memory performance differences in younger and older adults." Applied Cognitive Psychology 6(7): 629-642.

Diehl, W. A. and L. Mikulecky (1980). "The nature of reading at work." Journal of Reading 24: 221-227.

Ehrlich, M., France (1993). "Cognitive and motivational determinants of reading comprehension in good and poor readers." Journal of Reading Behavior 25(4): 365-381.

Englert, C. S. (1989). "Exposition: Reading, writing, and the metacognitive knowledge of learning disabled students." Learning Disabilities Research 5(1): 5-24.

Fagan, W. T. (1988). "Concepts of reading and writing among low-literate adults." Reading Research and Instruction 27(4): 47-60.

Fingeret, A. (1983). "Social network: A new perspective on independence and illiterate adults." Adult Education Quarterly 33(3): 133-146.

Forlizzi, -. L. (1992). Exploring the comprehension skills and strategies of ABE students, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy.

Gambrell, L. B. and B. S. Heathington (1981). "Adult disabled readers' metacognitive awareness about reading tasks and strategies." Journal of Reading Behaviour 13(3): 215-222.

Garner, R. (1987). Metacognition and reading comprehension. Norwood, N.J., Ablex.

Garner, R. and N. Taylor (1982). "Monitoring of understanding: An investigation of attentional assistance aeeds at different grade and reading proficiency levels." Reading Psychology 3(1): 1-6.

Grebelsky, O. (1990). What's new in the news? Comprehension of the news among adults with limited formal education, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem. Martin Buber Inst. for Adult Education.

Haller, E., P (1988). "Can comprehension be taught? A quantitative synthesis of "metacognitive" studies." Educational Researcher 17(9): 5-8.

Hollander, S. K. (1991). "Improving comprehension in the content areas: Introduction." Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International 7(4): 291-295.

Kaufman, J. J., A. L. Randlett, et al. (1985). "Awareness and the use of comprehension strategies in good and poor college readers." Reading Psychology 6: 1-11.

Lomax, R., G., & McGee, L. M. (1987). "Young children's concepts about print and reading: toward a model of reading acquisition." RRQ 12(2): 237-256.

Lundberg, I. (1991). "Cognitive aspects of reading." International Journal of Applied Linguistics 1(2): 151-163.

Luszcz, M. A. (1993). "When knowing is not enough: The role of memory beliefs in prose recall of older and younger adults." Australian Psychologist 28(1): 16-20.

Mikulecky, L. and J. Ehlinger (1986). "The influence of metacognitive aspects of literacy on job performance of electronics technicians." Journal of Reading Behavior 18(1): 41-62.

Myers, M. and P. S. G. (1978). "Childrens metacognitive knowledge about reading." Journal of Educational Psychology 70: 680-690.

Norman, C. A. and G. Malicky (1987). "States in the reading development of adults." Journal of Reading 30(4): 302-307.

Palincsar, A. S. (1986). "Metacognitive strategy instruction." Exceptional Children 53(2): 118-124.

Paris, S. G. (1991). "Assessment and remediation of metacognitive aspects of children's reading comprehension." Topics in Language Disorders 12(1): 32-50.

Paris, S. G., D. R. Cross, et al. (1984). "Informed Strategies for Learning: A program to improve children's reading awareness and comprehension." JEP 76(6): 1239-1252.

Paris, S. G. and M. Myers (1978). "Comprehension monitoring, memory, and study strategies of good and poor readers." Journal of Reading Behavior 13(1): 5-22.

Paris, S. G. and E. R. Oka (1989). "Strategies for comprehending text and coping with reading difficulties." Learning Disability Quarterly 12(1): 32-42.

Poissant, H. (1994). Assessing and understanding the cognitive and metacognitive perspectives of adults who are poor readers, Center for the Study of Reading, Urbana, IL.

Read, C. and L. Ruyter (1985). "Reading, and spelling skills in adults of low literacy." Remedial and Special Education 6: 43-52.

Rinehart, S. D. and J. M. Platt (1984). "Metacognitive awareness and monitoring in adult and college readers." Forum for Reading 15(2): 54-62.

Soifer, R., M. E. Irwin, et al. (1990). The complete theory to practice handbook of adult literacy. New York, Teachers College Press.

Spedding, S. and L. K. Chan (1993). "Metacognition, word identification, and reading competence." Contemporary Educational Psychology 18(1): 91-100.

Stanovich, -. K.-E. (1982). "Individual differences in the cognitive processes of reading: I. Word decoding." Journal of Learning Disabilities 15(8): 485-493.

Stanovich, -. K.-E. (1982). "Individual differences in the cognitive processes of reading: II. Text-level processes." Journal of Learning Disabilities 15(9): 549-554.

Stanovich, K. E., R. F. West, et al. (1995). "Knowledge growth and maintenance across the life span: The role of print exposure." DP 31(5): 811-826.

Tang, H. N. and D. W. Moore (1992). "Effects of cognitive and metacognitive pre-reading activities on the reading comprehension of ESL learners." Educational Psychology 12(3-4): 315-331.

Tunmer, W. L., Herriman, M.L., & Nesdale A. R. (1988). "Metalinguistic abilities and beginning reading." RRQ 23(2): 134-158.

Walczyk, J. J. and R. W. Taylor (1996). "How do the efficiencies of reading subcomponents relate to looking back in text?" Journal of Educational Psychology 88(3): 537-545.

Wong, B. Y. L. and R. Wong (1982). "Increasing metacomprehension in learning disabled and normal achieving students through self questioning training." Learning Disability Quarterly 5: 228-240.

Wong, B. Y. L. and R. Wong (1986). "Study behavior as a function of metacognitive knowledge about critical task variables: An investigation of above average, average, and learning disabled readers." Learning Disabilities Research 1: 101-111.