Metacognitive Orientation of the Class and the Students' Metacognitive Awareness and Academic Achievement R. Chaalmeh M. Foolaadchang, Ph.D. Given that the metacognitive orientation of a group of students depends on their metacognitive awareness, to assess the strength of this relation and its role in academic achievement, a cluster sample of 213 high school students with the ...

This paper reports on a study investigating the relationship between metacognitive strategy awareness in reading and reading ability in L1 and L2. Forty Malaysian secondary school students responded to a reading metacognitive awareness questionnaire. They also completed four sets of reading comprehension tests to determine their reading competence in L1 and L2. Results indicate that reading met...

BACKGROUND While advancements in technology have encouraged the development of novel prompting systems to support cognitive interventions, little research has evaluated the best time to deliver prompts, which may impact the effectiveness of these interventions. OBJECTIVE This study examined whether transition-based context prompting (prompting an individual during task transitions) is more ef...

The task that brought about this comment required the learner, an Open University student of German, to use a concept map to make a list of all the roles he played in everyday real life, including being an online language learner. The learner then had to imagine that each of these was a job he was applying for and had to write down the qualities he could bring to each job, bearing in mind that ...

abstract  this paper  aims at investigating the metacognitive knowledge of solving problem among primary school students with high and low school achievement. two other variables of the students’ grade and sex were also accounted for. the participants were 232 boy and girl students from forth and fifth grades which were randomly selected and divided into two groups of high  and low achievers . ...

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...

Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder experience difficulties with social skills, which can be attributed to deficits in Theory of Mind (ToM, the ability to infer others thoughts) and metacognitive abilities (thinking about your own thinking). Neuroimaging studies have revealed that the medial prefrontal cortex is part of the ToM and metacognitive networks, and is underactive in individuals...

this study aimed to investigate the relationship between metacognitive beliefs and self-efficacy in elementary school teachers and their professional skills of orumieh city. the population of this study was all 984 elementary school teachers of second region of orumieh ,so 276 of them were chosen according to kocran formula. three metacognitive beliefs, professional competence and sherer’s self...

the present study aimed to examine the efficacy of metacognitive therapy in treatment of patients with pure obsession.six patients suffering from pure obsession were selected using purposeful sampling method and were included after meeting the inclusion criteria of the study. patients were assessed using the structured clinical interview for dsm- iv axis i disorder - patient edition (scid- i/p)...

Determining the most effective prompting strategies to be used for individuals with significant intellectual disability can assist in the acquisition of skills, reduction of errors, and avoidance of prompt dependency. However, few studies have directly compared the effects of different prompting strategies to determine which are the most effective. In the present study, physical only and physic...