Learning in search can take the form of changes in conceptual knowledge and procedural knowledge at a cognitive level. Searchers may also gain insights into their cognitive process though their metacognitive experiences and thereby acquire metacognitive knowledge which may also influence their search process and outcomes. This paper describes the concepts of metacognition, metacognitive knowled...

A general framework is presented to help understand the relationship between motivation and self-regulated learning. According to the framework, self-regulated learning can be facilitated by the adoption of mastery and relative ability goals and hindered by the adoption of extrinsic goals. In addition, positive self-e$cacy and task value beliefs can promote selfregulated behavior. Self-regulate...

background: several studies have shown that attentional bias plays a role in the beginning, persistence and relapse of substance abuse disorder. therefore, identifying the factors related to attentional bias in substance abusers is important. in so doing, the present study was aimed at examining the relationship between attentional bias, anxiety sensitivity and metacognitive beliefs in substanc...

I describe two aspects of metacognition, knowledge of cognition and regulation of cognition, and how they are related to domain-specific knowledge and cognitive abilities. I argue that metacognitive knowledge is multidimensional, domain-general in nature, and teachable. Four instructional strategies are described for promoting the construction and acquisition of metacognitive awareness. These i...

patients and methods the study was performed on 40 tbi patients referred to the shahid beheshti hospital of kashan city and 40 normal controls in kashan. traumatic brain injured patients and normal controls were selected by convenience sampling. two groups filled out the demographic sheet, cognitive failures questionnaire (cfq) and meta-cognitions questionnaire 30 (mcq-30). the data were analyz...

Fifty blogs were analysed and classified according to both their content and formal structure. The SOLAT questionnaire, aimed at assessing the right (i.e., intuitive-holistic) vs. left (i.e., systematic-analytical) thinking style, was put online, and blog owners were asked to complete it in order to match their cognitive style to the “style” of their blog. Respondents were also asked some metac...

Vocabulary learning strategies and vocabulary size are among the main factors that help determine how students learn second language vocabulary. The present study was an attempt to exploring the relationship between vocabulary learning strategies and Arabic vocabulary size of 742 pre-university in Religious High School (SMKA) and Government-Aided Religious School (SABK). TAV test and Schmitt’s ...