Metacognitive knowledge : development, application, and improvement

An important goal in contemporary educational psychology research is adolescent students' development of higher-order thinking, which includes, among other things, that these students become competent and independent learners and problem solvers. This goal comes forth from the notion of educati...

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Main Author Velzen, Joke van (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP-Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2017.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806608591
DOI10.1108/978-1-64113-024-0
Physical Description1 online resource (378 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Metacognitive knowledge
  • The research project3 worthwhileness and materials
  • Metacognitive knowledge
  • Applying metacognitive knowledge : effective planning
  • Developing metacognitive knowledge : self-induced self-reflective thinking
  • Improvement techniques: deliberate practice and hypothesis testing
  • Synthesis
  • Instructional implications in constructing metacognitive knowledge : can inquiry-based learning provide for a solution?
  • Appendices
  • References
  • About the author.