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Marulis, Loren M.; Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan; Berhenke, Amanda L.; Whitebread, David – Metacognition and Learning, 2016
Historically, early cognitive skills have been underestimated, largely as a result of the ways these competencies have been measured, which is particularly pervasive in the area of metacognition. Only recently have researchers begun to detect evidence of contextualized metacognition in 3-5 year old preschool children through the use of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Preschool Children, Interviews, Thinking Skills
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von der Linden, Nicole; Schneider, Wolfgang; Roebers, Claudia M. – Metacognition and Learning, 2011
Two studies were conducted to investigate whether context variations were suitable to improve metacognitive judgments in children in a complex, everyday memory task. In the first phase of each experiment, participants were shown a short event (video) and gave judgments-of-learning (JOLs), that is, rated their certainty that they would later be…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Metacognition, Memory, Cognitive Processes
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Mason, Lucia; Boldrin, Angela; Ariasi, Nicola – Metacognition and Learning, 2010
This study examined epistemic metacognition as a reflective activity about knowledge and knowing in the context of online information searching on the Web, and whether it was related to prior knowledge on the topic, study approach, and domain-specific beliefs about science. In addition, we investigated whether Internet-based learning was…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Metacognition, Grade 8, Internet
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Shamir, Adina; Mevarech, Zemira R.; Gida, Carmit – Metacognition and Learning, 2009
This study investigated the effectiveness of assessing young children's meta-cognition in different contexts (i.e., individual learning (IL), peer assisted learning (PAL) and self-reports). Additionally, the contributions of declarative and procedural meta-cognition in IL and PAL, TOM and language ability on children's cognitive performance…
Descriptors: Young Children, Cognitive Development, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries
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Mevarech, Zemira R.; Amrany, Chagit – Metacognition and Learning, 2008
The present study addressed two research questions: (a) the extent to which students who were exposed to meta-cognitive instruction are able to implement meta-cognitive processes in a delayed, stressful situation, in our case--being examined on the matriculation exam; and (b) whether students preparing themselves for the matriculation exam in…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Mathematics Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Methods
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Yau, Jia-ling Charlene – Metacognition and Learning, 2009
Integrating both quantitative and qualitative approaches, this study examined the knowledge and application of strategic reading among Taiwanese adolescents learning to read English as a foreign language. A total of 144 Grade 11 students participated in this study. Correlational analysis and t-tests were applied to analyzing quantitative data,…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Reading Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Reading Strategies