A student, supported by his classmates, throws a piece of chalk at the teacher who is writing on the blackboard. The teacher rapidly turns back and promptly catches him in the act. The student blushes and suddenly realizes how bad it was what he did. What happened to the guy? Why did he decide to throw the piece of chalk? And why, after a few seconds, he would have liked that what he did had ne...

AbstractDeveloping self-regulated learners has been the life-long ambition of different stakeholders in education. This study was set out to find the relationships between self-regulated strategies as defined by time and resource management, cognitive and metacognitive strategies, achievement goals classified as mastery, performance-approach and performance-avoidance, and the listening ac...

this study aimed to compare some of the most important metacognitive belifes and thought control strategies among students with normal and pathological worry.the sample consisted of 146 undergratuate students selected by multiple clustering method.all subjects were asked to complete metacognitive belifes questionaire ( mcq(, penn state worry questionaure(pswq) and thought control strategies ( t...

This article presents two longitudinal studies that investigated expertise reversal effects in journal writing. In Experiment 1, students wrote regular journal entries over a whole term. The experimental group received a combination of cognitive and metacognitive prompts. The control group received no prompts. In the first half of the term, the experimental group applied more cognitive and meta...

Metacognition helps educators develop better teaching and learning strategies, contexts, materials. But, the development use of good strategies materials as guided by metacognition require understanding how it promotes efficiency cognitive system in learning. This article proposes a cognitive-metacognitive that illustrates metacognitive based on pioneers’ research subject (1979 to 2009). Cognit...

Background: Cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies are identified as important solutions for improving academic achievement. This study aimed toevaluate the effect of teaching cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies on academic achievement among nursing students. Methods: This Study was an experimental with pretest and posttest and follow-updesign. The study population included...

comparison of the effect of concept mapping and nursing process on self-regulated learning, self-efficacy and cognitive strategies in nursing students     rezaei k [1] *, kouhestani h [2] , nejat n [3] , ebrahimi fakhar h [4]     received: 12 oct , 2011 accepted: 20 jan , 2012     abstract   background & aims : the success of nursing students depends on the understanding of complex concepts and...

Software agents “living” and acting in a real world software environment, such as an operating system, a network, or a database system, can carry out many tasks for humans. Metacognition is very important for humans. It guides people to select, evaluate, revise, and abandon cognitive tasks, goals, and strategies. Thus, metacognition plays an important role in human-like software agents. Metacog...