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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"metacognitive skill"”.
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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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Cultural competence: implications for validity, measurement, and performance
… of this research, however, has only examined metacognitive skill as it applies to academic settings (Tobias & Everson, 2002; Veenman & Spaans, 2005). Other contexts, such as cross-cultural settings, may equally benefit from such applications. This dissertation contributes to research on …
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Handwriting & Metacognition: The Relationship Between Penmanship and Self-Reflection
… be successful in the treatment of handwriting. Metacognitive skill, a component of cognition, allows a child to self-monitor and self-reflect on his or her handwriting skills to correct mistakes and generate goals for improvement. Therefore, a child’s ability to self-reflect on handwriting is …
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The effectiveness of pre-course and concurrent course interventions on at-risk college physics students' mechanics performance
… course instruction, which is focused on metacognitive skill development, saw twice the performance gain than the Pre-Course students when compared to their peers who received no intervention.
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"I remember when you taught me that!" Developmental and gender differences in children's episodic memories of learning events during the early school years
… and whether this ability was related to another metacognitive skill, source monitoring. Further, the study investigated possible gender differences in the ability to recall learning events. Sixty children, ages four to six years, participated in two staged learning events about two novel topics, …
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Negotiated Tutoring: An Approach to Interaction in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
… styles, and an emphasis on cognitive and metacognitive skill acquisition in domains characterised by justified belief. This combination of features has not been previously incorporated into models for intelligent tutoring dialogues.<br></br><br></br> Our approach depends on modelling the …
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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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Perceptions of Change in Self-Efficacy to Pursue Postsecondary Education for Students with Exceptionalities Participating in a Postsecondary Transition Program
… academic program and their process of metacognitive skill development, whereas their peers without exceptionalities were more likely to describe a positive experience on a college campus as the primary contributing factor for their increased academic self-efficacy. The study further …
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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 …