{"id":14072,"date":"2011-01-22T18:19:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T23:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=14072"},"modified":"2011-01-22T18:19:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T23:19:55","slug":"assessing-and-developing-metacognitive-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/01\/22\/assessing-and-developing-metacognitive-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing and developing metacognitive skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facultyfocus.com\/articles\/learning-styles\/assessing-and-developing-metacognitive-skills\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Assessing and developing metacognitive skills<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from Faculty Focus by MaryEllen Weimer<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Metacognition is easily defined: \u201c[It] refers to the ability to  reflect upon, understand and control one\u2019s learning,\u201d (Schraw and  Dennison, p. 460) or, even more simply, \u201c<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>thinking about one\u2019s thinking<\/strong><\/span>.\u201d  Despite straightforward definitions, metacognition is a complicated  construct that has been the object of research for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Research supports theories that separate metacognition into two major  components: knowledge of cognition and regulation of cognition.  Knowledge of cognition \u201cdescribes an individual\u2019s awareness of cognition  at three different levels: declarative (knowing about things),  procedural (knowing about how to do things), and conditional (knowing  why and when to do things).\u201d (Cooper and Sandi-Urena, p. 240) Regulation  of cognition relates to how learners control their learning. Relevant  regulatory activities include planning, monitoring, and evaluating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assessing and developing metacognitive skills &#8212; from Faculty Focus by MaryEllen Weimer Excerpt: Metacognition is easily defined: \u201c[It] refers to the ability to reflect upon, understand and control one\u2019s learning,\u201d (Schraw and Dennison, p. 460) or, even more simply, \u201cthinking about one\u2019s thinking.\u201d Despite straightforward definitions, metacognition is a complicated construct that has been the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[468],"tags":[459],"class_list":["post-14072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metacognition-metacognitive-skills","tag-metacognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14073,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14072\/revisions\/14073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}