Soccer players are required to anticipate and react continuously in a changing, relatively unpredictable situation in the field. Cognitive functions might be important to be successful in soccer. The current study investigated the relationship between cognitive functions and performance level in elite and sub-elite youth soccer players aged 13-17 years. A total of 47 elite youth soccer players ...

As a component of self-regulated learning, metacognition is gaining attention in the medical education research community. Metacognition, simply put, thinking about one’s thinking. Having meta...

This study investigated the quality of metacognition at its inter-individual level, i.e., socially-shared metacognition, across two collaborative writing tasks of different difficulty levels among a cohort of Iranian EFL learners.  Moreover, it examined the correlation between the individual and the social modes of metacognition in writing.  The analysis of think-aloud protocols of a number of ...

Over the last two decades, the concept of self-regulated learning (SRL) has guided scientific approaches to understand successful learning in different fields. Self-regulatory processes were shown to explain achievement differences in students, and SRL may effectively improve achievement in students of different proficiency levels (Zimmerman and Schunk, 2011). Self-regulation refers to " self-g...

The symptoms and the individual experience of psychosis vary from patient to patient. Treatment, medication and cognitive psychotherapy are targeted mostly on positive and lately also on negative symptoms of psychosis. Deficits in metacognition found in patients with psychosis have a profound impact on the recovery process, their quality of life and experience of mental pain. Long term group ps...

Items to measure learning strategies were extracted from students' written narratives about their study and learning habits. A resulting 79-item instrument was administered to 321 graduate and undergraduate students. From factor analysis of the correlation matrix four factors were identified: (I) reflective metacognition, (II) procedural metacognition, (III) rote memorization, and (IV) procrast...

The present study was undertaken to investigate the relationship between metacognition, self-confidence and family environment of 10+1 students. sample consisted 800 students selected randomly from four districts Haryana (India). Metacognition Inventory by Govil (2003), Self-confidence inventory Agnihotri (1987) Family Environment scale Bhatia Chadha (1993) were used. findings indicate that the...

Considering the fact that academic curricula asks of students to perform better in an ever increasing information world and to be able to solve problems efficiently, this study was aimed at verifying if students will develop metacognition, the ability to reflect on one’s own cognitive processes to a significant degree, after receiving a short term training in concept-mapping, an information org...

This commentary asks whether the term “metacognition” means different things to researchers working in different subareas of cognitive and developmental psychology or whether they are just studying different aspects of the same underlying construct. The four articles in this special issue seem to be addressing phenomena that frequently share little except a label. Some of the phenomena that are...