metacognition

[met″ah-kog-nish´un]

an educational process that incorporates knowledge about one's abilities, the demands of given tasks, and potentially effective learning strategies; it involves self-regulation via planning, predicting, monitoring, regulating, evaluating, and revising strategies.

metacognition

A form of critical thinking, which is a key criterion for acquiring and assessing new information. For scientific thought, metacognition entails awareness of one’s background knowledge, assumptions, and auxiliary hypotheses regarding how an observation occurs and in assessing its validity.

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Metacognition and problem solving: A process-oriented approach.

AN INVESTIGATION OF METACOGNITIVE AWARENESS AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN COLLEGE FRESHMEN

One of the main assumptions among all theories of metacognition is the mutual correlation of knowledge and regulation of cognition (Flavell, 1979; Jacobs and Paris, 1987).

Teaching Styles as Moderator between Metacognitive Awareness and Study Habits among University Students

Many studies investigating the relationship between metacognition and obsessive symptoms in OCD have used non-clinical samples (3, 9), which are hypothesized to be analogous to OCD samples in that worry and obsessions are normally occurring phenomena; however, the need to study clinical samples has been emphasized (9).

Metacognitive Beliefs and Their Relation with Symptoms in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Further factors related to learning processes, such as motivation, metacognition and self-regulated learning are needed (Castel, Murayama, Friedman, McGillivray & Link, 2013; Kumar, Singh & Ahuja, 2017; Monads, de Palo, Sinatra, & Berzonsky, 2016; Villar, Pinazo, Triado, Celdran & Sole, 2010; Villar, Triado, Pinazo, Celdran & Sole, 2010b).

Enhancing e-learning in old age

The last mentioned duo gave shape and form to the concept of metacognition. They described it as the process through which individuals are aware and reflect upon the range of strategies (or create new strategies) appropriate to apply to a given task, and consider each relative to its utility in addressing the decision task at hand (Ford et al., 1998; Haynie & Shepherd, 2009, p.

THE KEY ROLE OF METACOGNITION MONITORING IN THE PERFORMANCE OF SMALL FIRMS: THE MEDIATING ROLES OF SYSTEMS, ORIENTATION, IMPLEMENTATION, AND STRATEGY

Keywords: Addiction; Metacognition; Metacognition Assessment Scale-Abbreviated (MAS-A); Rehabilitation; mixed-methods.

Metacognitive abilities in adults with substance abuse treated in therapeutic community/Habilidades metacognitivas en adultos con abuso de sustancias bajo tratamiento en comunidad terapeutica

Metacognition. Retrieved from https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-subpages/metacognition/

Learning to learn: Understanding the brain and learning

Media Writing, Metacognition, Reflection, Writing Skills and Strategies

A case study of using metacognitive reflections to enhance writing skills and strategies in an agricultural media writing course

The present study focused on the association of metacognition and cognitive insight in schizophrenia.

Metacognition and cognitive insight in schizophrenia

Since the 1970s, the terms metamemory and metacognition have come into use and were first coined by Flavell (1979; Flavell & Wellman, 1977).

The Key Role of Metacognition Monitoring in the Performance of Small Firms: The Mediating Roles of Systems, Orientation, Implementation, and Strategy