We explored whether performance differences exist between proficient and poor readers on implicit text information. Next, we explored whether indices of meta‐cognitive monitoring predicted reading performance. Finally, we examined whether poor and proficient readers exhibited distinct meta‐cognitive profiles with respect to reading comprehension ability. Chilean undergraduate students (N = 146) completed a task on inconsistency detection within texts and a standardised reading comprehension performance measure, which we used, along with confidence in performance judgements, to calculate meta‐cognitive monitoring accuracy. Our results confirmed that proficient readers outperformed poor readers on nearly all measures of interest, except global retrospective meta‐cognitive monitoring judgements, and that proficient readers performed significantly better on items related to implicit information of texts than poor readers. Additionally, when combined in a single group, number of inconsistencies correctly detected and repaired and accurate global evaluation of learning judgements significantly predicted reading performance whereas retrospective global and local meta‐cognitive monitoring judgements did not. Of special significance to our investigation, when separated in two groups, poor and proficient readers exhibited unique meta‐cognitive profiles. Proficient and poor readers employ different meta‐cognitive strategies, and poor readers benefit more from strategies than proficient readers.

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元认知线索对熟练和不良读者理解的作用

我们探讨了熟练和不熟练的读者在隐性文本信息上是否存在性能差异。接下来，我们探讨了元认知监控指标是否可以预测阅读性能。最后，我们研究了贫穷和熟练的读者是否在阅读理解能力方面表现出不同的元认知特征。智利大学生（N = 146）完成了文本中不一致检测的任务和标准化的阅读理解绩效测量，我们将其与对绩效判断的信心一起用于计算元认知监测的准确性。我们的结果证实，除了全球回顾性元认知监控判断之外，在所有感兴趣的指标上，熟练的读者都比贫穷的读者好，而且熟练的读者在与文本的隐含信息有关的项目上的表现要比贫穷的读者好得多。此外，当合并为一组时，正确地检测和修复的不一致现象的数量以及对学习判断的准确的整体评估可以显着预测阅读效果，而对回顾性的整体和局部元认知监控判断则不能。对我们的调查特别重要的是，当贫穷的和熟练的读者分为两组时，他们表现出独特的元认知特征。熟练和贫穷的读者采用不同的元认知策略，并且贫穷的读者比熟练的读者能从策略中受益更多。