Syntes: Bjork, Dunlosky & Kornell (2013) — learners hold faulty models of how they learn

Källa: Bjork, R. A.; Dunlosky, J.; Kornell, N. (2013 (Annual Review of Psychology 64, 417–444)). Self-Regulated Learning: Beliefs, Techniques, and Illusions. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-113011-143823

What the abstract says (read 2026-10-11; full text not read)

• Learning on one's own outside formal classrooms has grown in need and opportunity, but research on learning, memory and metacognition shows "people often have a faulty mental model of how they learn and remember, making them prone to both misassessing and mismanaging their own learning".
• The review covers what learners believe about how they learn, and how ongoing assessments of their own learning are swayed by current performance and the subjective sense of fluency, and ends with societal assumptions that can be counterproductive.

Why it is in the library

Adjacent (metacognition). With AI tools that make practice feel fluent and successful, the gap between felt and actual learning is central to Q2: it explains why learners prefer the tool that helps least (Kreijkes et al. 2026; Karpicke & Roediger 2008 predictions) and why C2's practice-score gains mislead. Supports candidate K06 (promoted as C11 on 2026-10-14) (desirable difficulties feel worse but work).