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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Metacognitive skills"”.
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Students' Use of Metacognitive Skills While Problem Solving in High School Chemistry
… of this study was to investigate how purposeful metacognitive instruction affected students’ use of metacognitive skills and their abilities to solve complex chemistry problems. The pilot (n = 18 to 26) and study (n = 21) groups were enrolled in separate Ontario Grade 11 university preparation …
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Metacognitive skills and the adult developmental reader : issues in identification and instruction
… before and after ten weeks of instruction in metacognitive reading skills, (b) to examine differences in mastery of metacognitive skills determined by years away from secondary education, and (c) to investigate the effect of instruction in metacognitive skills on the improvement of reading …
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Rethinking Thinking About Thinking: Against a Pedagogical Imperative to Cultivate Metacognitive Skills
… teaching practices that cultivate students’ metacognitive skills.</em></p> <p><em></em>In this dissertation, I counter that education research does not impose such a mandate upon instructors. We lack sufficient and reliable evidence from studies that use the appropriate research design to …
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Design, development and evaluation of technology enhanced learning environments: learning styles as an evaluation tool for metacognitive skills
… learning. However, this requires students to be metacognitive so they can manage and monitor their learning progress. This thesis investigates the impact of student metacognitive skills on their learning outcomes in terms of recalling and retaining information within a formally designed and TEL …
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The evaluation of a metacognition education intervention through dialogic teaching for the promotion of self-regulated learning of Deaf and hard of hearing students in Deaf schools
… These tools are nested entities in that strong metacognitive skills and awareness are important to have strong self-regulated learning skills and effective self-regulated learners are effective self-directed learners. This would imply that in order to have successful lifelong learning, …
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The Development Of The Metacognitive Elements Of Study Scale
<p>Current theories suggest that metacognitive skills are an important aspect of effective studying. However, few learning and study questionnaires assess the metacognitive components of studying and those that do often assume that certain strategies are more appropriate than others, regardless of …
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Off-line metacognition in children with mathematics learning disabilities
… metacognition and mathematical problem solving skills in lower-elementary-school children. The question underlying this thesis is whether or not off-line metacognition has some ‘value added’ in the assessment and treatment of young children with mathematics learning disabilities. Since Flavell …
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Mathematics in workplace settings: Numeracy in the mechanical engineering trades
… the nature of the mathematical knowledge and skills, and how they are applied and developed. A purposive sample of 199 apprentices, skilled tradespersons and mechanical engineering trades educators completed a questionnaire about the mathematics and numeracy skills they used, how they used and …
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Strategies for Identifying the Main Idea of Expository Passages: An Experimental Study
… passages. This treatment also taught students metacognitive skills for checking the appropriateness of these main idea hypotheses. The Classification Skills intervention taught students to classify words, phrases and sentences under the appropriate topic. The Control students received practice …
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Curriculum design in higher education using a learning outcome-led model: Its influence on how students perceive learning
… define the subject -specific, the transferable skills and the generic academic outcomes which influence directly both the content and process of learning, and which successful students are expected to achieve on completion of a module. The findings show that five design features influence how …
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The Relationship Between Academic Anxiety, Metacognition, and Academic Achievement
… academic anxiety and performance. Using the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI), Academic Anxiety Inventory (AAI), and self-reported GPA scores gathered from undergraduates (N = 128), regression analyses were conducted. Results indicate that higher general trait anxiety predicts lower …
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Effects of Specific Strategy Training on the Written Expression of Learning Disabled Students Grades 3-6
… students acquire or use written language skills less efficiently than nondisabled students. Specific interventions are needed to facilitate written language acquisition for the learning disabled. Procedure. Eighteen learning disabled students in grades three through six were involved in a …
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Changing perceptions of ICT at KS3 : a critical investigation using activity theory.
… how ICT capability was perceived in terms of skills used, with the metacognitive skills at one end and the tools of specific software applications at the other. The other continuum was concerned with the pedagogy of ICT. It emerged that the schools employed different pedagogical strategies …
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A comparison of two instructional methods for drawing Lewis structures
… better with the DORM, perhaps due to better math skills, enhanced working memory, and better metacognitive skills. Regular Chemistry 1 students performed better with the CAM, perhaps because it is more visual. Teachers may want to use the CAM or a direct-pairing method to introduce the topic and …
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Factors that predict the use of metacognitive strategies in the middle school classroom.
… was to investigate the growth and transfer of metacognitive strategies in mathematical problem solving from a university course to the classroom. In this study, six preservice teachers with different levels of mathematics achievement and experiences were selected purposively for in-depth …
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Dolltalk : a computational toy to enhance narrative perspective-talking
… In this thesis it is suggested that literacy skills in children five to seven years of age can be obtained with a broader understanding of language and its representation. Oral storytelling is presented as a way to develop metacognitive skills with a focus on character-based narrative where …
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Assessing the Impact of Metacognition and Reading Lessons on Metacognitive Awareness, Reading Comprehension, and Attitude in Introductory College Biology
<p>Current research supports the role of metacognitive strategies to enhance reading comprehension, yet there is little data to date on this topic in college science classes. The research question of this dissertation is: Does teaching metacognitive skills and active reading strategies in college …
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Thinking about thinking: Investigating the co-development of metacognition, self-control and ToM
… argued that children as young as 3 or 4 have metacognitive abilities. This situates the development of metacognition in the same period as the development of self-control and theory of mind (ToM). The developmental relationship between self-control and ToM is well established (Hughes & Ensor, …
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The role of self-regulation in motor learning : exploring the self-regulated motor performance of children with developmental coordination disorder
… that these children have fewer cognitive and metacognitive skills with which to acquire motor skills and solve motor performance problems. In other words, it assumes that children with DCD poorly self-regulate their own motor performance. However, despite the highly recognized role played by …
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Writer with more at stake : returning adults in the freshman composition classroom
… to revise; interest in and acquisition of metacognitive skills; and use of life experience to enrich their writing.
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