Meta cognition

Question 1

TRUE OR FALSE?
Habits of a good reader:
1. Clarify purpose and tailor readings strategies for purpose
2. Determine the most important thing to remember and focus on that
3. Prior knowledge makes sense of what they read
4. Visualizing doesn’t help sense-making process
5. Persist in reading until they understand
6. Mentally summarize what they read.

Answer 1

1 True
2 True
3 True
4 False, illustrations, diagrams, other graphics do help sense-making process
5. True
6. True

Question 2

TRUE OR FALSE?
Habits of a good reader:
1. No need to elaborate on what they read
2. Ask questions they try to answer as they read
3. Check if they understand and remember what they read
4. Avoid ambiguous (open to debate) points
5. Read to find new ideas and replace existing concepts
6. Critically evaluate all they read

Answer 2

1 False, Good readers do eleborate like: drawing inferences (conclusions), identifying logical relations, thinking of examples or applications
2 true
3 true
4 False, they try to clarify ambiguous points
5 true
6 true

Question 3

Be aware of once thinking and learning processes to enhance their learning and memory

Answer 3

Meta cognition

Question 4

Mention the metacognitive knowledge and skills
‘‘e.g., recognizing that it isn’t possible to
memorize 200 pages of text in a single evening’’

Answer 4

Know once learning capabilities and what tasks are realistic to accomplish

Question 5

Mention the metacognitive knowledge and skills
‘‘finding a quiet place to
study’’

Answer 5

Plan a viable (realistic) approach to a new learning task

Question 6

Mention the metacognitive knowledge and skills
‘‘e.g., realizing
that meaningful learning is more effective than rote learning’’

Answer 6

Know what learning strategies are effective and ineffective

Question 7

Mention the metacognitive knowledge and skills
e.g., taking detailed notes when
lecture material might be hard to remember

Answer 7

tailor learning strategy to circumstance

Question 8

Mention the metacognitive knowledge and skills
‘‘e.g., determining whether information
has or hasn’t been successfully learned’’

Answer 8

Monitor present knowledge

Question 9

Mention the metacognitive knowledge and skills
‘‘e.g.,
thinking about the context in which a certain piece of information was probably
learned’’

Answer 9

Know effective strategies for retrieval of pre-stored information