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Taub, Michelle; Banzon, Allison M.; Outerbridge, Sierra; Walker, LaVonda R.; Olivera, Lindsey; Salas, Marissa; Schneier, Joel – Metacognition and Learning, 2023
Writing is a crucial, interdisciplinary skill that incoming college students need to successfully complete many of the tasks assigned within their coursework. While teaching self-regulation skills for writing has become more commonplace in writing curricula, and research has investigated how students have been impacted by a writing-about-writing…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Writing Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Wilson, Joshua; Wen, Huijing – Elementary School Journal, 2022
This study investigated fourth and fifth graders' metacognitive knowledge about writing and its relationship to writing performance to help identify areas that might be leveraged when designing effective writing instruction. Students' metacognitive knowledge was probed using a 30-minute informative writing prompt requiring students to teach their…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Metacognition, Writing Attitudes, Writing (Composition)
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Petko, Dominik; Egger, Nives; Graber, Marc – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2014
The goal of this study was to compare how weblogs and traditional handwritten reflective learning protocols compare regarding the use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies for knowledge acquisition as well as learning gains in secondary school students. The study used a quasi-experimental control group design with repeated measurements…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Education, Student Journals