metacognition
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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.
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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.Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
metacognition
(met-a-kog-nish'un) plural.metacognitionsAwareness of the knowledge one possesses and one's ability to apply that knowledge.
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