Metacognitive Strategies: Do They

Improve Student Learning?

 LEARNING OBJECTIVE
• EVALUATE THE DIFFERENT
STRATEGIES OF
METACOGNITION,
• Create one’s learning
strategies
 What is metacognition?
The ability to:
• Think about one’s own
thinking
• Be consciously aware of
oneself as a problem solver
• Monitor, plan, and control
one’s mental processing (e.g.
“Am I understanding this
material, or just memorizing
it?”)
First Strategy: Reading Comprehension –
Anticipatory Sets!
Preview material before reading
> Develop questions you expect the
passage to answer
> Read one paragraph at a time
while stopping to paraphrase the
information read
Knowing what to read FOR affects your
comprehension
of the material greatly!
 Second Strategy:
Summarizing/Paraphrasing
Students with the most success reported telling
another
person about what they learned in class daily
> Explain a concept out-loud or to another
person
(teaching someone else)
> Pair-share
 Third Strategy: Study
Groups/Teaching Others
“If you can meet with other classmates to compare
notes. It helps with other ways to understand
material”.
• “Network with classmates”.
• “Find a study partner”
 Fourth Strategy: Self-Testing
Strategies
• Create questions, which you yourself will
answer by setting aside your notes or
reference.
• Check your level of accuracy after answering
the questions using your notes or study
guide.
 Fourth Strategy: Bloom’s
Taxonomy/Scaffolding
•
To counter learned helplessness, build student
confidence gradually within the work week
 Design, build, construct, Plan Use information to create
Produce, devise, invent Something new

Critically exam information Judge, Test, Critique

and make judgments defend, criticize

Categorize, examine, compare/ Take information apart and

Contrast, organize Explore relationships

Use information in a Use, diagram, make a chart,

new but similar Draw, apply, solve, calculate
situation

Interpret, summarize, Understanding and making sense

Explain, infer, paraphrase, Out of information
discuss

Find or remember List, find, name, identify, locate

information Describe, memorize, define
 SUMMARY
• What are those strategies for?
It is for the students to become active learners:
To engage rather than simply compliant and
self-absorbed and too surrendering.
 TASK
• THROUGH A SCHEMATIC
PRESENTATION CREATE YOUR
OWN LEARNING STRATEGIES
WHICH YOU CAN USE FOR THE
NEXT SCHOOL YEAR OF YOUR
ACADEMIC LIFE.