Metacognition

(noun)

"Cognition about cognition", or "knowing about knowing. " It can take many forms, including knowledge about when and how to use particular strategies for learning or for problem solving.

Related Terms

  • critical thinking

Examples of Metacognition in the following topics:

  • Instructional Scenarios

    • We have two educational stories to help you, the reader, understand how information processing, particularly metacognition, can be applied in the classroom.
  • Benefits of I-Search

    • This combination encourages the development of metacognitive skills because the students are required to reflect deeply as they analyze the information they uncover and make decisions about its validity.
  • Benefits

    • Students who participate in the program benefit from an increase in metacognitive growth (Cox, Fang, & Schmitt, 1998).
  • Cognitive Development in Adolescence

    • Metacognition.
    • Metacognition provides the ability to plan ahead, see the future consequences of an action, and provide alternative explanations of events.
    • Metacognition is relevant in social cognition and results in increased introspection, self-consciousness, and intellectualization.
  • Advantages of Cognitive Tools

    • Cognitive tools should allow students to "activate metacognitive learning strategies" (Jonassen, 1992, p. 2).
    • Metacognitive learning strategies are strategies that are used when students encounter new information, connect it to prior knowledge then construct and revise their schemata.
  • Long-Term Memory

    • These control processes are called metacognition.
    • Metacognition often takes the form of strategies.
    • Metacognitive strategies is a term borrowed from IP theory.
    • Metacognitive strategies might include using advance organizers, self-planning, self-monitoring, and self-evaluation.
  • From Traditional Research to Standards-based I-Search

    • I-Search is the process of searching for answers to questions which have personal meaning to the writer combined with a metacognitive review of the search process.
  • Challenges of Reciprocal Teaching

    • This strategy has helped students with poor decoding skills participate in reciprocal teaching activities, which allows them to make gains in their metacognitive and comprehension skills (Le Fevre, et al, 2003).
  • References

    • At-risk children's metacognitive growth during Reading Recovery experience: A Vygotskian interpretation.
  • Listening and Critical Thinking

    • Critical thinking skills include observation, interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation, explanation, and metacognition.
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