wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

Metacognition test 1

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Please write your SURNAME followed by your NAME here

4 lines
2.

What is not considered to be metacognition?

a)

Thinking about thinking

b)

Going beyond thinking

c)

Being told what to think

d)

Asking questions while you think

3.

Metacognition helps students to __________

a)

understand the process of learning

b)

understand the course content

c)

understand the teacher's accent

d)

understand how teaching works

4.

You have presented a new task. You want the learner to assess it. What would be the best question to ask?

a)

What did we do last week?

b)

what skills did you use in the task last week that you can re-use in this task?

c)

How is this task similar to the task we did last week?

d)

What did you do for homework last week?

5.

Why do we need to teach students about Metacognition?

a)

So they can know when to give up if they don't understand

b)

So they can be better people

c)

So they can be more effective learners

d)

So that they know when to scaffold their learning

6.

Which metacognitive habit is a student using when they know different methods to learn and try different ones when needed?

a)

Focus

b)

Goals

c)

Environment

d)

Strategies

7.

Which of these actions would be considered to be examples of metacognition? (may be more than 1 answer)

a)

Mentally rehearsing before an important speech.

b)

Solving a math equation by plugging numbers into an equation

c)

Developing a mental plan for action before embarking on a task.

d)

Changing strategies when you notice that a plan is not working.

8.

You can make adjustments to the strategies you are using.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Metacognition is to understand your own __________.

a)

cognitive skills

b)

bad habits

c)

think-alouds

d)

scaffolding

10.

Select all answers that are correct

A simple example of a metacognitive skill is:

a)

Realizing you missed something

b)

Telling yourself you are terrible at this

c)

Tell yourself to concetrate

d)

Giving up if you don't understand

11.

Metacognition is all about asking students what and how they learned.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Metacognition is a key area of

a)

Scaffolding

b)

Guided Discovery

c)

Deeper Learning