(1993). Novices and programming: Merely a difficult subject (why?) or a means to mastering metacognitive skills? [Review of the book Studying the

Pupils’ poor achievement in mathematics has recently been a concern in many Western countries. In order to address this issue, it has been proposed to teach chess in schools. However, in spite of optimistic claims, no convincing evidence of the academic benefits of chess instruction has ever been provided, because no study has ever controlled for possible placebo effects. In this experimental s...

aim and background:  major depressive disorder (mdd) has physically and psychological effect on individuals with that disorder. one of the effective areas is emotion expression styles and metacognitive beliefs that has important role in interpersonal and between individual relationships. the purpose of this research was study of emotion expression styles and metacognitive beliefs in individuals...

The ability to manage study activities by themselves is one of the educational goals that learners should achieve at the end of secondary school. Self-regulation, however, includes a variety of metacognitive issues. Firstly, self-regulated students should be aware of the mental processes they rely on when performing cognitive tasks, of the degree of autonomy they are allowed in managing study a...

The aim of this study was to compare the skills of mindfulness, metacognitive beliefs and perceived stress in hypertension patients and control group. The study was a causal-comparative one. The population included all patients with high blood pressure who were admitted in Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Institute in 2014, 90 of which were selected by purposive sampling. Research instruments in...

ely perform complex cognitive tasks such as solving mathematics or reading comprehension problems. In this paper, we use an adaptive multiplayer perceptron model to categorize participants based on their metacognitive awareness and perceived use of reading strategies while reading. Eight hundred and sixty-five middle school students participated in the study. All participants completed a 30-ite...

Metacognitive training techniques have been used successfully to improve children's problem-solving skills. The concept of metacognition needs further refinement, however, if it is to continue to be useful as an explanatory construct. Specifically, we argue that more attention needs to be paid to how metacognitive abilities are acquired, how this knowledge could be used to help improve the perf...

Metacognitive processes such as monitoring and control and sense-making processes such as self-explanation and analogical comparison are each hypothesized to result in effective problem solving, learning and transfer (Chi et al., 1994; Alfieri, et al., 2013; Zepeda et al., 2015). However, little work has examined how these processes relate to one another and their associated learning outcomes. ...