The analysis of Metacognitive skills is a key element to guide the learning process. Current research has shown the initiation of these skills from an early age. The present study had two aims: (1) to validate a Scale Measuring Precursor Metacognitive Skills (SMPMS) in children with diverse disabilities, and (2) to study possible significant different between different disabilities in precursor...

First, we sought to examine the effects of metacognitive self-regulation on problem solving across three conditions— an interactive, computer-based treatment condition, a non-interactive computer-based alternative treatment condition, and a control condition. Second, we sought to investigate which of five components of metacognitive self-regulation were important for scientific problem solving....

Metacognition, motivation, and affect are components of self-regulated learning (SRL) that interact. The “metacognitive and affective model of self-regulated learning” (theMASRLmodel) distinguishes two levels of functioning in SRL, namely, the Person level and the Task× Person level. At the Person level interactions between trait-like characteristics such as cognitive ability, metacognitive kno...

Strong metacognition skills are associated with learning outcomes and student performance. Metacognition includes metacognitive knowledge-our awareness of our thinking-and metacognitive regulation-how we control our thinking to facilitate learning. In this study, we targeted metacognitive regulation by guiding students through self-evaluation assignments following the first and second exams in ...

Self-regulation of study activities is a constant in the lives of students - who must decide what to study, when to study, how long to study, and by what method to study. We investigated self-regulation in the context of a common study method: flashcards. In four experiments we examined the basis and effectiveness of a metacognitive strategy adopted almost universally by students: setting aside...

In the last years, Knowledge Technologies have been exploited to realize innovative and challenging self-regulation scenarios in e-learning systems. The learning environments as metacognitive artifact suitably scaffolding learners to improve their self regulated abilities, is still lacking though. In this work, we propose an innovative Web-based educational environment that sustains metacogniti...

Helping students’ improve their metacognitive and self-regulation skills holds the potential to improve students’ ability to learn independently. Yet, to date, there are relatively few success stories of helping students enhance their metacognitive skills using interactive learning environments. In this paper we describe the Self-Assessment Tutor, an intelligent tutoring system for improving th...