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Simge Çi̇çek 2017108132 Pred320 Research Methods
Simge Çi̇çek 2017108132 Pred320 Research Methods
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Scope (Identify the research topic and context, what they are trying to do?)
a. Annotate or summarize the source.
b. Include the main points of an author’s opinion.
c. State the problem, research questions and /or hypotheses
Metacognition is one of the main goal of improve students’ learning
outcomes. The issue of not aware of the individuals’ own metacognition
process leads to ineffective evaluation of their learning situation. Article
gives several examples of previous research results about individuals’
who have metacognitive awareness and necessary abilities to control and
monitor their learning progress are prone to show higher academic
skills. According to article, individuals’ metacognitive awareness is
highly connected to their interpretations and beliefs towards task and
learning circumstances. As a result of this, this article main point is to
analyze the relationship between learners’ metacognition awareness and
their task interpretations on the subject of collaborative learning. The
author’s core intent is to examine how metacognitive awareness
influence individual’s situation-specific perceptions about task and
learning results with regard to collaborative learning. In the light of
these purposes, the authors provide several research questions. The first
research question examines the relationship between learners’ views
about metacognition which is associated with their situational
perceptions of task complexity and task recognizing in the collaborative
learning. The second question focuses on differences in learner’s
situational perceptions towards task performance during the
collaborative learning process. The last question underlines that how is
affected individuals’ learning process by their metacognitive perceptions
and situational evaluations of task performance.
Limitations
a. Were there any limitations that limit its generality and applicability?
There are five limitations in this study. The first one is using limited number of participants
that affected the generality of this research. The second is testing effect which the difficulty
of using pre-test for causing biased results because of the external validity. The third
limitation is having not any measurement to specify which students’ task understanding
progressed. The fourth and fifth limitations are linked each other because of the
methodological insufficiencies. In order to measure collaborative learning circumstances,
we have to use different type of analytical tool which is suggested interaction analysis.
Also the researchers could not use any post measures for observing metacognitive
perceptions. The future studies can offer more awareness tools for measuring individuals’
metacognitive views.
Reflection (explain how this work illuminates your topic or how it will fit in with your
research)
a. Is it a useful source?
The articles and resources about learners’ metacognitive awareness characteristics
are not enough for people who want to study about this topic. Therefore, this
research provides several prompts about other professionals to start somewhere.