Metacognition Quiz

Metacognition helps students to __________

• understand the process of learning

• understand the course content

• understand the teacher's accent

• understand how teaching works

What is NOT considered to be metacognition?

• Thinking about thinking

• Going beyond thinking

• Being told what to think

• Asking questions while you think

All of the following could be considered teaching metacognitive strategies except:

• Having students write down the steps to solving a math problem.

• Asking students to edit each other's papers and then revise their own before turning them in.

• Assigning a daily journal for students to reflect about the day's learning.

• Giving students a certain number of points for their performance in class that day.

The goal of teaching metacognitive strategies is to:

• Have all students solve problems the same way.

• Give students one more thing to have to learn.

• Teach students how to excel on standardized tests.

• Create independent, empowered thinkers who have a toolkit of strategies to tackle new problems.

The following are all examples of metacognitive strategies except

• Critiquing.

• Evaluating Work.

• Predicting outcomes.

• Taking dictation while the teacher speaks.

Which of the following term refers to the process of thinking about one's own thinking and learning?

• Goal setting

• Metacognition

• Study strategies

• Self-regulated learning

Metacognitive thinking and strategies help students become flexible, creative, and self-directed learners.

• True

• False

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Metacognitive skills help you do which of the following?

• Plan the learning process

• Control the learning process

• Evaluate the learning process

• All of the answers are correct.