Metacognition and Monitoring:
Understanding and Improving Students’ Skills for Learning

Major Initiatives Resources Professional Development Community About EDUCAUSE

You are receiving this message because your browser is not JavaScript-enabled. We recommend you enable JavaScript in your browser, which is required to exploit the full functionality of the EDUCAUSE Web site, to ensure the best possible experience on our site.

ELI Web Seminar, May 5, 2008 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

Metacognition and Monitoring: Understanding and Improving Students’ Skills for Learning

Special Guest

Marsha Lovett
Associate Research Professor, Department of Psychology and Associate Director, Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence
Carnegie Mellon University

Marsha Lovett is associate director for faculty development at the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and associate research professor in the Department of Psychology, both at Carnegie Mellon University. She has written numerous research articles on how students learn and how instructional interventions can enhance student learning. Lovett’s research interests include instructional technologies that help students learn to solve problems, teaching practices that enhance students’ learning strategies, and the application of learning theory to improve education.

NOTE: As of March 2008, we are now using Adobe Connect to host our web seminars.

Whether you’ve participated in an ELI web seminar before or you’re joining us for the first time, please run the Adobe Acrobat Connect Connection Test before the event. The test takes approximately 30 seconds and will verify that your computer meets hardware and software requirements to use Adobe Connect, and will provide instructions for installing Adobe Flash, if needed. If you have problems completing the test or installing required software, please contact support@clarix.com, or visit Adobe Support for more information.

If you are having audio or video issues during the event, please see our Adobe Connect Frequently Asked Questions page. If you need further assistance, please contact EDUCAUSE Member Services at 303-449-4430.

Summary

Julie Little, Interim Director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, will moderate this web seminar with Marsha Lovett, in which she discusses recent research on teaching metacognition, including a Carnegie-Mellon program where metacognitive instruction is integrated into first-year science courses.

As educators, Lovett says, we tend to focus on teaching students "content," but we also want to help students develop as learners. Metacognition—thinking about one’s own thinking and reflecting on one’s own learning—is essential to achieving both goals, and yet instructors often feel they lack time or expertise to teach their students metacognitive skills. This presentation offers a second opportunity to hear Lovett’s popular featured session from the 2008 ELI Annual Meeting.

Additional Resources

Po Bronson, "How Not to Talk to Your Kids: The Inverse Power of Praise."
David Dunning and Justin Kruger, "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments."
Jennifer Livingston, "Metacognition: An Overview."
Douglas Mann, "Cognitive Psychology Principles for Educational Technology."
National Research Council, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School.

Need Help? | Site Map | Feedback | Privacy Policy

Unless otherwise noted, EDUCAUSE holds the copyright on all materials published by the association, whether in print or electronic form. In certain cases the work remains the intellectual property of the individual author(s) (see Special Circumstances).