How Metacognition Supports Giftedness in Leadership

How to measure metacognition

The ability to recognize one's own successful cognitive processing, in e.g., perceptual or memory tasks, is often referred to as metacognition. How should we quantitatively measure such ability? Here we focus on a class of measures that assess the correspondence between trial-by-trial accuracy and one's own confidence. In general, for healthy subjects endowed with metacognitive sensitivity, whe...

How learners share and construct metacognition in social interaction?

The aim of this exploratory study was to examine how the six matched triads of pre-service teachers share and construct metacognition in mathematical problem solving in WorkMates learning environment having or having not a stimulated recall group interview. More specifically, we examined socially shared metacognition and we performed the qualitative content analysis of the discussion forum data...

Metacognition in animals: how do we know that they know?

Research on animal metacognition has typically used choice discriminations whose difficulty can be varied. Animals are given some opportunity to escape the discrimination task by emitting a so-called uncertain response. The usual claim is that an animal possesses metacognition if (a) the probability of picking the uncertain response increases with task difficulty, and (b) animals are more accur...

How leadership influences student learning

Metacognition in Animals Metacognition in animals

Metacognition is thinking about thinking. There is considerable interest in developing animal models of metacognition to provide insight about the evolution of mind and a basis for investigating neurobiological mechanisms of cognitive impairments in people. Formal modeling of low-level (i.e., alternative) mechanisms has recently demonstrated that prevailing standards for documenting metacogniti...