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 . ...

Achieving expertise in any area requires extensive practice and engagement with the subject one desires to master. As not all practice yields good progress, methods must be found that lead learners to practice effectively. Many experts employ highly tailored practice involving metacognitive processes, but novices rarely engage in frequent and explicit metacognitive strategies during practice. A...

Many teacher educators have enthusiastically embraced case-based instruction in teacher education programs. However, the research base on whether pre-service and inservice teacher educators’ case-based reflections on educational issues is comprehensive and critical manner is equivocal. This study explores the use of a metacognitive strategy, the Case Decision Making Scaffold (CDMS), in the cont...

Research showed distinct effects of different online activities on reading literacy or learning outcomes; however, no explanation about this link was provided. The current study investigated the effects of two genres of online reading activities on reading literacy based on knowledge of metacognitive strategies in a mediation analysis. Participants were 87,735 fifteen-year-old students (49.8% g...

BACKGROUND Problem-based learning (PBL) is a method used to develop cognitive and metacognitive skills in nursing students. OBJECTIVES The present study was conducted to compare the effects of PBL and the traditional lecture method on critical thinking skills and metacognitive awareness in nursing students in a critical care nursing course. DESIGN The present study was conducted with a quas...

Young children with learning disabilities typically encounter difficulty with academic tasks requiring intentional effort and effective use of metacognitive skills--qualities that competent readers and writers possess. In response to these difficulties, special educators often modify literacy instruction, isolating the "basic skills" of literacy (such as decoding and penmanship) from meaningful...

This study aimed at examining the effects of metacognitive learning strategies on reading comprehension performance 80 Grade Five pupils in MSU-Integrated Laboratory School for SY 2011-2012. The researcher used quasi-experimental design, which entailed using two intact, randomly selected groups: one served as control group and other experimental group. descriptive-quantitative research was to d...

Deductive reasoning is often seen as being composed of an immutable mechanism, universal to all reasoning situations and consisting of either mental models (e.g., Johnson-Laird, 1983) or formal-rules (e.g., Rips, 1994). Many researchers have questioned whether these positions are truly mutually exclusive (e.g., Roberts, 1993, 2000). Most deductive reasoning research has largely ignored the infl...