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https://services.viu.ca/sites/default/files/metacognitive-awareness-inventory.pdf
Learning
- Should not just mean studying for your quizzes and exams in school
- Could also occur outside the confines of a book (Ex.: acquiring new skills for a sport/hobby)
- Learn how to learn these things
Abstraction
- “Homo Sapiens”
o “wise man”
o can think in a more complex level than our ancestors and other beings
o can think about thinking like how we think of things and why we think in a certain way
about things
- Metacognition
o “thinking about thinking”
o “The awareness of the scope and limitations of your current knowledge and skills.” –
Meichenbaum, 1985) –
o Enables a person to:
a. Adapt their existing knowledge and skills for a learning task
b. Seek their optimum result of leaning experience
o Thinking process of an individual
o Keeping one’s emotions and motivations while learning in check
a. Some learn better when they like the subject,
b. When they are challenged by the subject,
c. If they have a reward system
o Two Aspects:
1. Self-appraisal
Personal reflection on your knowledge and capabilities
2. Self-management of cognition
Mental process you employ using what you have in planning and adapting
to learn
– For both of them to work, you must have an accurate self-assessment
– Be honest about what you know and capable of in order to find ways to utilize your
strengths and improve your weakness
- Elements of Metacognition
o Metacognitive knowledge
o What you know about how you think
- Metacognition Regulation
o How you adjust your thinking process
- Metacognitive Knowledge
o Several variables that affect you know or assess yourself as a thinker
1. Personal variable
Evaluation of your strengths and weaknesses
2. Task Variable
What you know or what you think about :
a. the nature of the task
b. strategies the task requires
3. Strategy Variable
Strategies/skills you already have in dealing with certain tasks
- Skills in Exercising Metacognition
1. Knowing your limits
o Look at the scope and limitations of your resources
o Look for ways to cope with other necessities
2. Modifying your approach
o Recognizing that your strategy is not appropriate with the task
3. Skimming
o Browsing over a material and keeping an eye on keywords, phrases, etc.
o Works best when you want to get an idea about the content
4. Rehearsing
o Repeatedly talking, writing, and doing what you learned
o Trying to make a personal interpretation or summary of the learning experience
5. Self-Test
o Trying to test your comprehension of your learning experience/skills
o Does not only focus on what you learned but how you learned it
Other Strategies:
1. Tacit Learner
o Unaware of their metacognitive processes although they know the extent of their
knowledge
2. Aware Learner
o Aware of some of their metacognitive strategies but using techniques are not always
planned
3. Strategic Learner
o They plan their course of action toward learning experience
4. Reflective Learner
o They reflect on their thinking while they are using strategies that will adapt their
metacognitive skills depending on their situation
1. To be a self-regulated Learner
o Education should not be limited by the capabilities of the teacher and the context of
textbooks
2. Compensation and development of cognitive limitations of the learner
o The student is now aware of his/her capabilities
3. Student is enabled to transfer knowledge from one context into another
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