Socioscientific Decision Making in the Science Classroom: The Effect of Embedded Metacognitive Instructions on Students' Learning Outcomes

Table 5

Multiple regression predicting posttest performance on “developing and evaluating solutions” (scale 2) by prior knowledge and treatment condition.

	B	SE	𝛽
Step  1
Prior knowledge (pretest scores)	0.53	0.06	.44***
Step  2
Prior knowledge (pretest scores)	0.51	0.06	.42***
Contrast 1 (control versus COOP and COOP+META)	0.66	0.12	.26***
Step  3
Prior knowledge (pretest scores)	0.49	0.06	.41***
Contrast 1 (control versus COOP and COOP+META)	0.67	0.12	.27***
Contrast 2 (COOP versus COOP+META)	−0.44	0.20	−.10*

Note: 𝑅² = .19 for step 1, Δ𝑅² = .07 for step 2, Δ𝑅² = .01 for step 3. *P < .05, ***P < .001.