ASSIGNMENT #3: Childhood through Adolescence
Activity 3: Assessing Students’ Metacognitive Awareness and Cognitive Strategies
Metacognition encompasses knowledge and control of one’s own mental processes. Literally, it means
“thinking about thinking.” In this assignment, you will explain in detail the following five concepts and give age appropriate examples (for childhood & adolescence) that demonstrate each concept:
Metacognition encompasses knowledge and control of one’s own mental processes. Literally, it means
“thinking about thinking.” In this assignment, you will explain in detail the following five concepts and give age appropriate examples (for childhood & adolescence) that demonstrate each concept:
1. Meta cognitive awareness: An important aspect of meta cognition,
metacognitive awareness is one’s explicit, conscious knowledge of one’s
mental processes. Children who have little metacognitive awareness are apt
to mention only external behaviors as they describe what they do when they
think and learn. In contrast, children with well-developed metacognitive
awareness can describe what and how they think in some detail. They also
have a good sense of what their minds and memories can reasonably do—
and not do—in a particular situation or learning task.
metacognitive awareness is one’s explicit, conscious knowledge of one’s
mental processes. Children who have little metacognitive awareness are apt
to mention only external behaviors as they describe what they do when they
think and learn. In contrast, children with well-developed metacognitive
awareness can describe what and how they think in some detail. They also
have a good sense of what their minds and memories can reasonably do—
and not do—in a particular situation or learning task.
2. Cognitive strategies: In general, cognitive strategies are specific mental
processes in which children actively and intentionally engage in order to
enhance their learning and performance. Three commonly used strategies
that enhance children’s memory for information are these:
processes in which children actively and intentionally engage in order to
enhance their learning and performance. Three commonly used strategies
that enhance children’s memory for information are these:
3. Rehearsal, in which a child repeats a small amount of information over and
over as a way of remembering it for a very short time (e.g., a minute or so).
over as a way of remembering it for a very short time (e.g., a minute or so).
4. Organization, in which a child identifies interrelationships among pieces of
information (e.g., categories, cause-and-effect relationships) as a way of
learning and remembering them more effectively over the long run.
information (e.g., categories, cause-and-effect relationships) as a way of
learning and remembering them more effectively over the long run.
5. Elaboration, in which a child draws on prior knowledge to embellish on new
information in order to make it more meaningful and memorable.
HINT: Explain each concept & then give an example of appropriate development for
childhood & adolescence. (2 examples for each concept)
information in order to make it more meaningful and memorable.
HINT: Explain each concept & then give an example of appropriate development for
childhood & adolescence. (2 examples for each concept)
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