Jonathan Reed, PhD
Associate Professor
Investigating the role of metamemory in student performance in online courses
252-328-6244
Fax: 252-328-6283
Rawl 227
reedjo@ecu.edu
Investigating the role of metamemory in student performance in online courses
252-328-6244
Fax: 252-328-6283
Rawl 227
reedjo@ecu.edu
Mailing Address
104 Rawl Building
Department of Psychology
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858-4353
104 Rawl Building
Department of Psychology
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858-4353
Education
- PhD, University of New Mexico
- MS, Villanova University
- BA, Lehigh University
Research Interests
My research activities focus on online teaching, with an emphasis on the role of metacognitive processes. Ongoing studies are designed to investigate the relationship between metamemory for course content and changes in course performance across a full semester of instruction. Metamemory is one’s conscious knowledge of how much one knows/remembers about a topic. It is common for students to overestimate how much they know, resulting in overconfidence in their understanding and under-preparation for learning assessments. Thus, a primary goal of this line of research is to determine how best to re-calibrate students’ metamemory judgments and thereby bring their expectations about class performance in line with their actual preparedness.