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WorksheetsMetacognition test 1
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Please write your SURNAME followed by your NAME here
What is not considered to be metacognition?
Thinking about thinking
Going beyond thinking
Being told what to think
Asking questions while you think
Metacognition helps students to __________
understand the process of learning
understand the course content
understand the teacher's accent
understand how teaching works
You have presented a new task. You want the learner to assess it. What would be the best question to ask?
What did we do last week?
what skills did you use in the task last week that you can re-use in this task?
How is this task similar to the task we did last week?
What did you do for homework last week?
Why do we need to teach students about Metacognition?
So they can know when to give up if they don't understand
So they can be better people
So they can be more effective learners
So that they know when to scaffold their learning
Which metacognitive habit is a student using when they know different methods to learn and try different ones when needed?
Focus
Goals
Environment
Strategies
Which of these actions would be considered to be examples of metacognition? (may be more than 1 answer)
Mentally rehearsing before an important speech.
Solving a math equation by plugging numbers into an equation
Developing a mental plan for action before embarking on a task.
Changing strategies when you notice that a plan is not working.
You can make adjustments to the strategies you are using.
True
False
Metacognition is to understand your own __________.
cognitive skills
bad habits
think-alouds
scaffolding
Select all answers that are correct
A simple example of a metacognitive skill is:
Realizing you missed something
Telling yourself you are terrible at this
Tell yourself to concetrate
Giving up if you don't understand
Metacognition is all about asking students what and how they learned.
True
False
Metacognition is a key area of
Scaffolding
Guided Discovery
Deeper Learning
