Metacognition

One of the most important concepts I would like to impart to you the student is metacognition. Metacognition is term that means awareness of your thoughts or thinking about how you think. It has been discussed that there are two categories a student can fall into when it comes to their approach to learning. The first approach to learning is based on achieving performance goals. It has been said that students who strive to achieve performance goals believe that knowledge is an inherent talent…

According to our textbook, Invitation to the Life Span, metacognition is a control process that essentially allows an individual to better understand what they know, how they learn, and how they can improve their ability to learn. When an individual considers how they may improve their ability to learn, they develop strategies. One situation was presented in a video on Metacognition, in which students were able to enhance their reading comprehension and memory. Strategies consisted of careful…

Flavell (1976), and there are several terms used to represent the same general idea of metacognition, e.g. metacognitive beliefs, executive skills, metacomponents, self-regulation, and judgments of learning (Veenman et al, 2006). The development of all of these terms relates to the myriad of definitions and foci associated with the term metacognition. Flavell’s (1976) original framework described metacognition as knowing about your own cognitive processes and the ability to monitor and regulate…

As quickly as this quarter has gone by, there has been plenty of things I've learned. My favorite, being metacognition. Although, metacognition may have had absolutely nothing with this course, it seemed to be a very important tool for processing essays. Not only that, the process of defining the word “metacognition”, always managed to stir-up a good educated confabulation. Most importantly, this course has given a lot of confidence in my writing process. I learned how helpful, for me, it can be…

Metacognition is a big word that can be broken down into two simple pieces; meta, which means “to think about”, and cognition, which means “one’s own thinking”. This fact was explained to my class on the first day of T&L 301. However, before this was explained, we had begun our metacognitive journey. A week before we had started the class, we were asked to think about what we thought was development and bring in a picture that visualized our thought processes. After that first day, we then went…

meta-cognition imperative in health care? Critical thinking and metacognition is an important factor that people in the health care field should have because it will help them make better health decisions for their patients. Critical thinking and meta-cognition is important because they are techniques that help people learn. If people do not think about the decisions or facts they are being taught, then most likely they will not be learning. Metacognition is a strategy that helps people think…

more of a problem with the pedagogical methods of teachers, or in the students’ study habits? Educational psychologists declare metacognition as a crucial concept in effective learning. Metacognition is “one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes and products or anything related to them” (Cubukcu 2). In the context of the learning process, metacognition can refer to the…

This construct of self-evaluation is known as metacognition. Thus, metacognition can be defined as the ability of individuals in a situation to understand, aware and regulate their own knowledge, thoughts and performance on tasks (Flavell, 1979; Garner & Alexander, 1989). In other words, metacognition focuses on one’s own cognitive process in order to take conscious control of planning, analysing, monitoring and evaluating…

was conducted similarly to experiment two, but this time the dogs were awarded similar amount of rewards for choosing both the informant and non-informant. The results of these three experiments were subjective. Whether these experiments showed metacognition is debatable (McMahon, Macpherson, & Roberts 2010). However, this experiment does display clear evidence that dogs have information-seeking behaviours that involved communication with women, However, this experiment does display clear…

According to Mandia Mentis, Dunn-Bernstein, and Martene Mentis (2008), mediating self-regulation involves teaching students to use metacognition to enable choosing appropriate responses to a given stimulus, to assess their own behavior, and to make adjustments when needed. That being said, Math Block is a technique particularly ripe with opportunity for mediation of self-regulation. In Math Block, behavior adjustments require restraining the impulse to give the first answer that pops into their…