LET REVIEW ON METACOGNITION

The process of metacognition helps every learner how to learn effectively. Which of the following statements is NOT a result of metacognition?

• It makes the learner realize his strengths and weaknesses in learning

• It develops the learner’s self-motivation to learn and improves his study habits.

• It trains the learner how learn on his own more efficiently and effectively.

• It teaches the learner to know what to learn and for him to accumulate more knowledge.

• It develops the ability of the learner to evaluate his own thinking and learn more effectively.

Below are the six aspects and/or processes of study habits listed in no particular order. Which should be the correct logical and systematic sequence of the six aspects?

1. Note-taking and reading

2. Organizing and planning the work

3. Preparing an assignment/project

4. Motivation

5. Managing school work stress

6. Working with others

• 1-2-3-4-5-6

• 4-2-6-5-1-3

• 4-2-5-6-3-1

• 4-3-5-2-6-1

• 3-4-1-5-6-2

According to John Flavell, metacognition consists of metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive experience or regulation. This simply means ___ .

• “thinking about thinking” or “learning how to learn”

• learning focuses on the accumulation of verbalized information.

• learning by rote and memorization with emphasis on knowledge of specific facts

• knowing what to learn through reading books and other vicarious experiences

• gaining knowledge in the most abstract and symbolic way

Which category / variable of cognitive knowledge refers to the knowledge about how human beings learn and process information?

• Strategy variable

• Task variable

• Person Variable

• Space variable

• Time variable

The Task Variable of Metacognitive knowledge includes the following except one. Which is an exception?

• Knowledge about the nature of the learning tasks to be accomplished

• Type of processing demands placed upon the individual

• Gauging the difficulty of the tasks to be done by the learner

• Kind of effort it will demand from the learner for him to exert

• Knowledge of various and appropriate strategy to be used in learning

That variable of cognitive knowledge in which the learner is made aware of the procedure to be used in trying to learn the topic/lesson and for him to evaluate whether the procedure is effective or not is the ___.

• Task variable

• Strategy variable

• Person variable

• Time and Space variable

• Resources – variable

It refers both to the knowledge people have about their own cognitive processes and the intentional use of certain cognitive processes to facilitate learning and memory.

• Cognizance

• Cognition

• Self- Actualization

• Self- Monitoring

• Metacognition