Sentence examples for metacognitive abilities from inspiring English sources
Recent studies have also shown that intrinsic motivation and metacognitive abilities play a decisive role in social functioning in schizophrenia.
Poorer metacognitive abilities are recognized as strong predictors of social functioning deficits in individuals with schizophrenia, but have not been studied in relation to perceived social support.
Carruthers also argues that, while even insects have beliefs (Carruthers 2004), there is no evidence that any nonhuman species has metacognitive abilities (Carruthers 2008).
When students are learning online, they are able to link new information to old, acquire meaningful knowledge and use their metacognitive abilities (Bonk and Reynolds 1997).
Indeed, very little is known about how to develop students' metacognitive abilities even though they play a critical role in mathematical problem solving and learning in general.
Instructors can assess students' prior knowledge and use "knowledge-activation routines" such as the K-W-L strategy, to "develop students' metacognitive abilities while providing relevant knowledge connections for specific units of study"(Shepard, 2005, p. 68).
Such stability of an individual's metacognitive ability across different perceptual tasks indicates a general mechanism supporting metacognition independent of the specific task.
Carpenter, J., Sherman, M.T., Kievit, R.A., Seth, A.K., Lau, H. & Fleming, S.M. Domain-general enhancements of metacognitive ability through adaptive training.
In Experiment 3, to examine between-subjects relationships between the formation of self-performance estimates (SPEs) and metacognitive ability, 73 subjects were originally recruited online.
Curricula that foster creativity — by developing children's intrinsic motivation for originality, encouraging their intellectual risk-taking and cultivating their metacognitive ability to self-reflect — might be a good place to start.
Together, the findings of Experiment 3 support a hypothesis that fluctuations in local confidence are predictive of global SPEs and that the formation of accurate global SPEs is linked to metacognitive ability.
