Preface In the continuing debate over how to improve the quality of undergraduate education, two questions are of central importance: What should be taught? and How can that curriculum best …

Importantly, metacognition is focused on planning, monitoring, and evaluating any kind of thinking about thinking and does nothing to connect one’s identity or abilities to any singular approach …

Metacognition can be defined very simply as thinking about thinking, or more fully as by developmental psychologist John Flavell: “Metacognition refers to one’s knowledge concerning …

Students with high metacognitive skills know when they understand the material and are more likely to be able to adjust their choice of test questions based on accurately reflecting upon …

Metacognition is, put simply, thinking about one’s thinking. More precisely, it refers to theprocesses used to plan, monitor, and assess one’s understanding and performance.

Although not always explicitly noted, metacognition—students’ thinking about their own learning—is an important element, providing the link between activity and learning.

In general, metacognition, per-haps the most intensively studied cognitive process in contemporary research in developmental and instruc-tional psychology, is usually defined as …

Nov 6, 2013 · There are few silver bullets in teaching and learning, but a handful of strategies are so grounded in evidence that I sometimes feel like shouting from rooftops. One is …

Microteaching has been defined as “a scaled down realistic classroom training context in which teachers, both experienced and inexperienced, may acquire new teaching skills and refine old …

Most faculty members are probably comfortable with the notion that their disciplinary background deeply influences not only what they teach but how they teach. And, indeed, a growing body of …