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Education 173 Cognition and Learning in Educational Settings Metacognition Fall Quarter 2007

Learn about metacognition, the process of thinking about thinking, and how it plays a role in cognition, problem-solving, and critical thinking. Discover how metacognitive skills can be taught and improved for personal effectiveness in an information-rich world.

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Education 173 Cognition and Learning in Educational Settings Metacognition Fall Quarter 2007

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  1. Education 173Cognition and Learning in Educational SettingsMetacognitionFall Quarter 2007

  2. Defining Metacognition • Definitions • Most simply: Thinking about thinking • More exactly: Monitoring and controlling thought • “Meta” Means “Alongside” • Metacognition Plays a Role in Several Kinds of Complex Cognition, Such As: • Metamemory and metacomprehension • Problem solving • Critical thinking

  3. Metamemory and Metacomprehension • Do You Know What You Know? • And what you don’t know? • Metamemory: How Accurately a Learner Can Appraise His or Her Own Knowledge State • Do you know the names of the planets? • Metacomprehension: How Accurately a Learner Can Judge His Understanding of Written or Spoken Communication • Sometimes readers have an “illusion of knowing”

  4. Examples of MetacognitionQuestioning One’s Own Cognition • Do I Understand What I Just Read? • With awareness, I have some choices to make. • Such as re-read, as for help, etc. • Without this awareness, there is no choice. • How Much Time Do I Need to Study for the Test? • What Study Strategies Should I Use? • I Think I Understand the Material, But How Can I Be Sure? • Can Other People Help Me to Understand The Material?

  5. Metacognition and Emotion • Metacognition Involves Not Only “Cool” Cognition, It Has Other Aspects • Emotional Aspects • Staying calm during frustration, and setbacks • Persisting • Self-efficacy Beliefs • Controlling self-doubt • “I can do this.”

  6. Metacognitive Skills and Education • Metacognitive Skills Are Part of What it Means to be an Educated Person • Metacognition Skills Are Tools for Personal Effectiveness in an Information-Rich World • We all need to be metacognitive • Meatacognitive Skills are Teachable and Learnable • And therefore a worthwhile goal for student learning?

  7. Is Metacognition Content-Specific? • Sometimes Yes: Content-Specific Metacognition • In science, for example: • What phenomena am I trying to predict or explain? • How can possible explanations (hypotheses) be compared and tested? • Sometimes No: Content-General Metacognition • Some metacognitive skills are general and therefore useful in many different problem-solving situations: • Is my strategy working? • Does this new idea seem true to me?

  8. Is MetacognitionConscious or Automatic? • Early Theoretical Definitions Suggested That Metacognition is a Conscious and Deliberate Process. • But Could Metacognition Have Some Element of Automaticity? • Perhaps you always evaluate truth claims, even in casual conversations. • Some People Seem to Have the Habit of Being Metacognitive.

  9. How to Improve Metacognition • Metacognition Must Have a Credible Presence in the School Curriculum • As an explicit goal of learning • Through instruction in metacognition. How? • One Way to Teach Metacognition: • Cognitive modeling by a teacher or professor • Or, Social Interaction Among Learners • Potentially very effective • But it’s difficult to sustain the quality of group learning

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