Metacognition in Upper-Division Biology Students: Awareness Does Not Always Lead to Control

CBE Life Sciences Education
Kathryn Morris Dye, Julie Dangremond Stanton

Abstract

Students with awareness and control of their own thinking can learn more and perform better than students who are not metacognitive. Metacognitive regulation is how you control your thinking in order to learn. It includes the skill of evaluation, which is the ability to appraise your approaches to learning and then modify future plans based on those appraisals. We asked when, why, and how upper-division biology students evaluated their approaches to learning. We used self-evaluation assignments to identify students with potentially high metacognition and conducted semistructured interviews to collect rich qualitative data from them. Through content analysis, we found that students evaluated their approaches to learning when their courses presented novel challenges. Most students evaluated in response to an unsatisfactory grade. While evaluating study strategies, many students considered performance and learning simultaneously. We gained insights on the barriers students face when they try to change their approaches to learning based on their evaluations. A few students continued to use ineffective study strategies even though they were aware of the ineffectiveness of those strategies. A desire to avoid feeling uncomfortable was...Continue Reading

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Nov 29, 2017·CBE Life Sciences Education·Cheryl A SensibaughMarcy P Osgood
May 23, 2018·CBE Life Sciences Education·Erin D SolomonRegina F Frey
May 11, 2019·CBE Life Sciences Education·Scott A SiekeJennifer K Knight
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Aug 17, 2019·CBE Life Sciences Education·Elise Walck-ShannonHailey Boehmer
Apr 3, 2021·CBE Life Sciences Education·Julie Dangremond StantonJohn Dunlosky
Apr 23, 2021·Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education·Caroline L DahlbergSamiya Ismail
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