All tagged metacognition
In this week’s post, Cindy and I (Althea) talk about our work with medical student learners. We have both worked for medical schools for a little over a year now and we’ve learned some things! We discuss common challenges for learning in medical school, efficient learning strategies, learning in the context of attentional disorders and anxiety, and what it means to prepare future healers.
Many educators use exam wrappers as a way to increase metacognition in their students. In a recently published article, the authors took exam wrappers one step further and sent students to our blog to learn more about retrieval practice and metacognition...
Below we have included a list of many different learning strategy questionnaires for your consideration. We have tried to include information about the amount of research that has been conducted on each questionnaire and the costs associated with its use, so that you can make an informed decision…
Metacognition is generally regarded as being the awareness or control of thinking for learning. John Flavell is an American developmental psychologist that specializes in cognitive development, and he coined the term in 1976 (1). He described it as the ability to think about one’s own thinking, be consciously …
I’ve learned so much about the tools, language, and strategies that medical students use and how those ideas can be adapted using effective strategies. I discuss the lessons I’ve learned about the limitations of research and efficient (not just effective) learning.
When students find out that they’re wrong about something, how often does that sink in? How often do we learn from our mistakes? While this is a complex question, today I’m going to share a hot-off-the-presses study with you that looked at one aspect of this issue.
