Teaching students to learn: developing metacognitive skills with a learning assessment.(QUICK FIX)
College Teaching, January, 2007 by Lerner, Jennifer E.
Engaging students in metacognitive activities that help them reflect on how they learn empowers them and improves their learning (Brookfield 1990; Taylor 1999). In my courses, I use a final assignment called a Learning Assessment to develop students' metacognitive skills. The Learning Assessment is a series of questions that students answer in a short paper due on the last day of class.
The questions vary by discipline and pedagogical approach. (l) What were the most important things you learned in this course? (2) In what ways was this course what you expected, and in what ways was it different from what you expected? (3) What aspects of the course helped your learning, and why? What aspects did you find unhelpful, and why? (4) What...
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