PY1LAL Metacognition week 1

Who was the concept first introduced by?

Flavell 1979

Quote from Flavell

metacognition refers to someones knowledge concernign one’s own cognitive processes and products of anything related

Metacognition and awareness (consciousness) people quoted ?

Vygotsky (1962) + Gourgey (1998)

Gourgey (1998) defined metacognition as :

“broadly defined as awareness and control of one’s learning and is considered to be ‘essentail to intelligent functioning‘ “

Vygotsky (1962) defined metacognition as :

the activity of conscientiousness can take diff directions

e.g. I tied a knot without but i cant explain how because my awareness was centred on knot rather than my motions

so “when the latter becomes the object of my awareness of the activity of the mind - the consciousness of being conscious”“

2 dimensions of metacognition

metacognitive knowledge + metacognitive regulation

3 types of knowledge included in Metacognitive knowledge

1. declarative knowledge

2. procedural knowledge

3. conditional knowledge

declarative knowledge

knowledge abt oneself as a learner + factors that influence your learning

procedural

knowledge abt carrying out strategies - perform a procedure

conditional knowledge

knowledge abt when and why to use the strategies

what is included in metacognitive regulation

1. planning

2. monitoring

3. evaluating

planning

Selecting appropriate strategies, assigning resourses, goal-setting

Monitoring

self-testing / keeping track of one’s understanding & performance

Evaluating

assessing the final result of one’s learning

(Gourgey, 1998, p82)

Whereas cognitive strategies enable one to make progress –to build knowledge metacognitive strategies enable one to monitor and improve one’s progress to evaluate understanding and apply knowledge to new situations.

Thus,metacognition is vital to cognitive effectiveness

Cignitive strategies

mind maps, rehearsal, cover and

check, completing past papers – aka ‘revision techniques’

Metacognitive strategies

= Looking at performance on past papers to work out which types of answers you got wrong and why