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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2021 Aug;57(8):1297–1317. doi: 10.1037/dev0001213

Table 3.

Experiment 2. Descriptive statistics of Meta-Memory Accuracy by Age Group and Set Size

Age Group Set Size k Meta-WM Meta accuracy
(absolute)
Hit Rate False Alarms
1st – 2nd Grade 3 1.6 (0.57) 2.9 (0.24) 1.3 (0.59) .85 (0.11) .38 (0.14)
6 1.7 (1.0) 4.5 (1.50) 2.8 (1.9) .65 (0.14) .48 (0.15)
9 1.3 (1.4) 5.9 (2.58) 4.7 (2.96) .61 (0.17) .54 (0.16)
3rd – 4th Grade 3 2.2 (0.48) 3.0 (0.096) 0.76 (0.50) .88 (0.083) .23 (0.14)
6 2.1 (1.5) 4.7 (1.34) 2.6 (1.66) .71 (0.14) .47 (0.18)
9 2.4 (1.8) 5.8 (2.86) 3.8 (2.82) .62 (0.14) .45 (0.15)
5th – 7th Grade 3 2.5 (0.53) 2.9 (0.19) 0.47 (0.38) .87 (0.14) .14 (0.12)
6 2.3 (1.3) 4.2 (1.27) 2.2 (1.56) .73 (0.19) .43 (0.16)
9 2.7 (1.5) 4.3 (1.84) 1.9 (2.31) .65 (0.23) .45 (0.14)
College Students 3 2.8 (0.22) 3.0 (0.039) 0.20 (0.22) .96 (0.051) .065 (0.064)
6 3.4 (1.1) 4.6 (1.10) 1.5 (1.24) .82 (0.12) .35 (0.14)
9 3.6 (2.0) 5.1 (2.10) 2.01 (1.65) .72 (0.14) .43 (0.17)

Note. Values represent mean values and in parenthesis, standard deviations.