While the importance of metacognition is widely acknowledged in education, some researchers indicate that the domain of metacognition is one that lacks coherence. In order to overcome this issue, it is necessary that each researcher explains what he addresses as metacognition by using his own or other people’s framework of metacognition. We propose a new framework for metacognition which explai...

GQM+Strategies is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies to achieve overall business goals and assesses the achievement of such goals. Strategies are extracted from business goals based on rationales (contexts and assumptions). Using the proposed approach, which refines the GQM+Strategies model by extracting rationales based on the analysis of ...

This work in progress evaluates Grades 9-12 students’ self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies during an engineering design project. The specific focus of this study is on student task interpretation and its relation to planning and cognitive strategies in engineering design activity. The two research questions guiding this study are: (1) to what degree does students’ interpretation of the desi...

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...

A study of teacher metacognition within the context of the professional learning community (PLC) was conducted to understand how teachers describe their metacognition, what they describe as the catalysts to their metacognition, and how metacognition influences their work. Although the PLC was used as a context for the study, the findings include that the PLC was an environment in which teacher ...

Research regarding the teaching of reading for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL) is still ongoing. This study focused on metacognitive reading strategies for these learners, first revisiting the concept of metacognition as proposed by Flavell, and then going on to explain reading strategies that require metacognitive skills within three knowledge dimensi...

objectives: the aim of present study was examining the effectiveness of group metacognition treatment on metacognition beliefs in women with breast cancer. method: in a quasi-experimental design, with pre-test and post-test and control group, 24 patients with a diagnosis of breast cancer, among patients who referred to the division of oncology and  radiotherapy of  imam hossein hospital  in teh...

AbstractThis study aims to highlight the key roles played by metacognitive strategies training in the development of listening comprehension skill and self-regulation strategies of EFL learners. The participants of this study (N = 60) were female Iranian students assigned to two groups of experimental and control in Kish English Language Institute. Learners in the experimental group recei...

Clinical reasoning serves as a crucial skill for all physicians regardless of their area of expertise. Helping trainees develop effective and appropriate clinical reasoning abilities is a central aim of medical education. Teaching clinical reasoning however can be a very difficult challenge for practicing physicians. Better understanding of the different cognitive processes involved in physicia...