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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"metacognitive awareness"”.
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The effect of journal writing on the reading comprehension and the metacognitive awareness of college students
… of the journal writing on the college students' metacognitive awareness of reading strategies was investigated.The subjects were 77 freshman college students enrolled in six credit/no credit developmental reading classes at a mid-size midwestern university. Two of the classes wrote dialogue …
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Deaf Students’ Metacognitive Awareness of the Reading Process and the Characteristics They Feel are Inherent in Proficient Readers
… conducted to gain insight into deaf students' awareness of the skills and strategies they utilize during the reading process and those they feel are inherent in proficient readers. The subjects involved in this study included fourteen tenth-grade and thirteen fourth-grade deaf students taking …
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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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The Relationship Between Metacognitive Awareness Of Reading Strategies Use And 10th Grade Students' College And Career Readiness Achievement In English Language Arts
… the relationship between 10th grade students’ metacognitive awareness of readings strategies use and their college and career readiness achievement in English language arts as a primary focus of research and, secondarily, the relationship between metacognitive awareness of reading strategies …
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Improving Metacognitive Awareness and Authentic Teaching Practices through Scaffolding Goal Setting and Reflective Practices with ECD Majors at the Community College Level
… learning classrooms. This study examined how metacognitive awareness changes throughout a semester with scaffolded goal setting and reflective practices. It investigated the types of goals students set for a specific learning task, as well as investigated their ability to apply reflective …
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An Investigation of the Relationships Between the Scoring Rubrics Inventory and the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory as Reported by Secondary School Core-Subject Teachers
… sophisticated analysis of student performance. Metacognitive awareness is crucial to the adoption and application of proven educational initiatives. Teachers who successfully implement criterion-referenced assessment instruction, scoring rubrics, transfer to their students the metacognitive …
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The Influnce of Metacognition on Managerial Hiring Decision Making: Implications for Management Development
… that training the novice on efficient use of metacognitive strategies can improve decision outcomes. The influence of metacognitive strategies on managerial decisions has received little attention. Two questions developed to guide this research. First, how do expert and novice managers differ …
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Metacognitive Instruction in L2 French: An Analysis of Listening Performance and Automaticity
… to investigate the instructional potential of metacognitive strategies to improve listening comprehension and the automaticity of listening processes. Metacognition can be described as focusing attention on the cognitive processes one is currently using. In the classroom, metacognitive …
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Minfulness-based Treatment Options for Anxiety as a Function of Described Etiology and Psychological Characteristics
… they answered self-report measures of metacognitive awareness, openness to experience, inherent mindfulness, experiential avoidance, religiosity, and anxiety. Hypotheses: The description of anxiety (H1) and individual characteristics mentioned above (H2) were expected to be related to …
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Minfulness-based Treatment Options for Anxiety as a Function of Described Etiology and Psychological Characteristics
… they answered self-report measures of metacognitive awareness, openness to experience, inherent mindfulness, experiential avoidance, religiosity, and anxiety. Hypotheses: The description of anxiety (H1) and individual characteristics mentioned above (H2) were expected to be related to …
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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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Implementing a question-generation strategy with bilingual students: exploring the perspectives of a beginning teacher /
… included "teacher attitude," "students' enhanced metacognitive awareness and strategy use," "listening skills," and "instructional challenges." Briefly, teacher's attitude demonstrated how teacher's beliefs and knowledge influenced her willingness and perseverance to teach explicitly. Students' …
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Visual literacy in anatomy
… aspects of identification, and many lack the metacognitive awareness to identify this problem. The research presented here details a series of experiments designed to elucidate the factors involved in students’ difficulties with studying the visual aspects of anatomy. All of the research …
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Social Metacognition in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Environments: A Comparison in an Online and Face-To-Face Information Literacy Course
… This allowed for the development of the Social Metacognitive Awareness Instrument (SMAI), which may be used by future researchers. When accounting for individual metacognitive scores, students in the face-to-face version of the course had significantly higher social metacognitive awareness …
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An evaluation between confidence judgments and differences in monitoring ability
Metacognition is the awareness of a person's thinking and the ability to regulate that thinKing This study examines how confident a person is at monitoring progress during two cognitive tasks. The fast task was the feeling-of-knowing paradigm, when participants judge how accurately they can …
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The Effects of Self-Regulated Learning Strategy Instruction and Structured-Diary Use on Students' Self-Regulated Learning Conduct and Academic Success in Online Community-College General Education Courses
… intervention was successful in raising the metacognitive awareness and self-regulated learning skill levels of community-college online students. Increased metacognitive awareness and self-regulated learning skills positively contributed to students' efficacy for academic success in online …
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Don't forget to remember: motivation and environmental cues affect prospective memory performance
… did not differentially influence PM performance. Metacognitive analyses indicated that while participants in the prosocial and standard conditions were underconfident, those in the self-interested condition accurately predicted their performance. Participants in the self-interested and standard …
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Autonomy in foreign language learning: An exploratory analysis of Japanese learners
… theory, that learner autonomy means both awareness of self-direction and the need for collaboration. In addition, she believes that autonomous learning is not just a matter of offering freedom of time and space, but that internal flexibility should be given some consideration in the …
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Learning in Medical School: Relationships Among Achievement Goals and Approaches to Learning in Three Classes of Medical Students
… the Achievement Goals Questionnaire (AGQ), the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI), and the Approaches to Learning and Studying Inventory (ALSI). Performance and demographic data were analyzed in terms of Questionnaire subscales. Of the three measures, two produced moderate to high …
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