Metacognition

By Tami B. Shelley. 2019

388 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This chapter reminds the reader of the importance of “thinking about your thinking” or metacognition and reflection. The importance is magnified for the pre-service teacher as they seek to develop lessons that will engage and excite learners. Examining one's own thinking allows a person to better understand their thinking and learning. It also encourages the learner to take ownership of their learning and cognition. For the pre-service teacher, the information gathered from “thinking about one's thinking” can be invaluable to success in the classroom. Metacognition, or reflection, is useful for identifying areas of limitations and strengths in our teaching. The highlight of this chapter is the shared journal entries from an intern's journey through internship. As a picture is worth a thousand words, these words of an intern using metacognitive skills to reflect on practice, experiences, and relationships through journaling is invaluable.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Large Language Models Can Self-Improve (2022, neutral): “…et al., 2022) crowd-sourced many human answers for diverse sets of text instructions to better align their model to human instructions; Minerva (Lewkowycz et al., 2022) parsed the full ArXiv database carefully for relevant articles to excel on challenging competitive math and science datasets.”
• Regression-based statistical mediation and moderation analysis in clinical research: Observations, recommendations, and implementation. (2017, methodology): “Many investigators reporting a moderation analysis de cribe using a hierarchical entry procedure such as this (e.g., Bailey & Wells, 2016; Lebowitz, Shic, & Campbell et al., 2015).”
• What is consciousness, and could machines have it? (2017, background): “Metamemoryiscrucial to human learning and education by allowing learners to develop strategies such as increasing the amount of study or adapting the time allocated to memory encoding and rehearsal ( 49 ).”