Metacognitive Development as a Shift in Approach to Learning: An in-depth study
Case and Gunstone conducted a study on students who were enrolled in an engineering course and after conducting series of interviews, they were able to provide detailed information about students’...
View ArticleA Metacognitive Learning Cycle: A Better Warranty for Student Understanding?
Blank’s study “proposes a revised learning cycle model, termed the Metacognitive Learning Cycle, which emphasizes formal opportunities for teachers and students to talk about their science ideas....
View Article5 Things Every Student Should Know Before Starting College
This article is about Geddes’ five tips to students who are entering college. Once you read the subtitles, I’m sure you will be intrigued to read this brief article. Five Tips Your Professors Hate Your...
View ArticlePausing Mid-Stride: Mining Metacognitive Interruptions In the Classroom
By Amy Ratto Parks, Ph.d., University of Montana Metacognitive interventions are often the subject of research in educational psychology because researchers are curious about how these planned,...
View ArticleTwo forms of ‘thinking about thinking’: metacognition and critical thinking
by John Draeger (SUNY Buffalo State) In previous posts, I have explored the conceptual nature of metacognition and shared my attempts to integrate metacognitive practices into my philosophy courses. I...
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Using Metacognition to Make International Connections
by Lauren Scharff, PhD, U. S. Air Force Academy and John Draeger, PhD, SUNY Buffalo State If you’re one of our longer-term followers, you’ll notice that this post is a bit different from others on our...
View ArticleTeaching a new course requires metacognition
by John Draeger, SUNY Buffalo State One of the joys of being an academic philosopher is the freedom to explore new ideas. For example, the recent retirement of a colleague left a gap in my department’s...
View ArticleUsing Metacognition to select and apply appropriate teaching strategies
by John Draeger (SUNY Buffalo State) & Lauren Scharff (U. S. Air Force Academy) Metacognition was a recurring theme at the recent Speaking SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) conference at...
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Keep Calm and Improve with Metacognition: reflecting on three years of...
John Draeger, SUNY Buffalo State As Lauren and Aaron have recently noted, Improve with Metacognition (IwM) is now three years old. The site has become a space for collaboration and conversation around...
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Teaching Transformation Through Becoming a Student of Learning
by Patrick Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Holly Matusovich & Sarah Williams, Virginia Tech Downloadable Motivations and context: I teach a variety of Mechanical Engineering...
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