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Not All Metacognition Is Created Equal.

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Hacker, Douglas J.; Dunlosky, John – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2003

Suggests that professors may want to help students think carefully about their own thinking. This article offers a practical approach that professors can use to help individual students and students within classrooms think metacognitively about their problem-solving efforts. (SWM)

Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Problem Based Learning, Student Participation

Fostering Critical Literacy: The Art of Assignment Design

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Wilner, Arlene – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2005

Applying reading and writing theory to cases in composition, this chapter troubleshoots assignments that produced disappointing results and illustrates how the model of the "ill-structured problem" can help writing instructors craft assignments that foster the cognitive and affective maturation essential to college-level literacy. (Contains 2…

Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Assignments, Problem Solving, Student Development