Look up: metacognition

1. Metacognition
   Learning about learning. One of the keys of the modern curriculum is getting children to understand how they learn, so that they can do so better and independently.
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2. metacognition
   reasoning about cognitive reasoning activities(of expert systems) Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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3. metacognition
   metacognition 1. Awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes, especially regarded as having a role in directing those processes. 2. Awareness and understanding one's thinking and cognitive processes; thinking about thinking. 3. Knowledge of one's own thoughts and the factors that in...
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4. Metacognition
   Metacognition is 'thinking about thinking.' Learners monitor their own thought processes to decide if they are learning effectively. Taking a learning styles inventory, then altering study habits to fit what was learned about preferences would be an example of a metacognitive activity.
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5. Metacognition
   Metacognition is the process of 'thinking about thinking.' For example, good readers use metacognition before reading when they clarify their purpose for reading and preview the text.
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6. Metacognition
   The process of considering and regulating one's own learning. Activities include assessing or reviewing one's current and previous knowledge, identifying gaps in that knowledge, planning gap-filling strategies, determining the relevance of new information, and potentially revising beliefs on the subject.
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7. Metacognition
   In psychology, metacognition refers to an awareness of one's own mental processes.
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8. Metacognition
   `Metacognition` is defined as "cognition about cognition", or "knowing about knowing."<ref name="Metcalfe">Metcalfe, J., & Shimamura, A. P. (1994). Metacognition: knowing about knowing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.>--> It can take many forms; it includes knowledge a...
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