Metacognition Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering key metacognitive concepts, learning strategies, and characteristics of novice versus expert learners.

Metacognition

Thinking about one’s own thinking and learning.

Person Variables

Awareness of your own strengths, weaknesses, and abilities as a learner.

Task Variables

Awareness of the difficulty and requirements of a learning task.

Strategy Variables

Awareness of which learning strategies are effective.

Meta-Attention

Awareness of one’s attention.

Meta-Memory

Awareness of one’s memory and ability to remember information.

Metacognitive Learning

Planning, monitoring, and evaluating one’s learning.

TQLR

A metacognitive learning strategy standing for Tune In (focus and prepare to learn), Question (ask what you want to know), Listen (listen carefully), and Remember (use ways to remember).

PQ4R

A study strategy for understanding and remembering a chapter/unit, consisting of Preview, Question, Read, Recite, Review, and Reflect.

Novice Learner

A beginner with limited knowledge or experience, characterized by surface understanding, rigid strategies, processing everything, and not usually checking work.

Expert Learner

An experienced learner who uses effective strategies and monitors learning, characterized by deep knowledge, understanding problems, flexible strategies, selecting important information, and checking work.