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The Illusion Of Learning: Improving Student Metacognition


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The Illusion of Knowing Metacognition

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What do you know about 'metamemory' illusion?

If a period of time where teachers are discovering metacognition and cognitive science, what can educators do to help their students become more aware of their own learning, and how best to learn.

Carole L. Yue of Covenant College writes how Improving Learner Metacognition and Self-Regulation as a chapter feature in How We Teach Now (2017). I discovered her paper on ResearchGate and then found the entire PDF book is freely available. I've read the paper and offer a summary

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Posted in Academic Research, Assessment, Basic Account, Teaching and LearningTagged Carole L. Yue, Covenant College, Feedback, Illuision, Memory, metacognition, retrieval practice, Self-regulation, spaced practice

4 thoughts on “The Illusion Of Learning: Improving Student Metacognition”

  1. Robin Andrews says:
    17th August 2020 at 8:18 am

    The work of Edward de Bono is incredibly valuable in regard to metacognition in education. He has developed a whole set of tools that have been tried and tested worldwide. They are well worth checking out.

    1. @TeacherToolkit says:
      17th August 2020 at 1:01 pm

      Thanks for the tip-off.

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