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Metacognition

Metacognition

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This bundle was created to edify and support your research interests. Red resources are recommended by the faculty.

 

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  1. Brown, A. L. (1978). Knowing when, where, and how to remember: A problem of metacognition. In R. Glaser (Ed.), Advances in instructional psychology 7 55–111. New York, NY: Academic Press.

  2. Brown, A. L. (1980). Metacognitive development and reading. (Links to an external site.)
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In R. S. Spiro, B. B. Bruce, & W. L. Brewer (Eds.), Theoretical issues in reading comprehension. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

  3. Breines, J. G., & Chen, S. (2012). Self-compassion increases self-improvement motivation. (Links to an external site.)
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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(9), 1133-1143.

  4. Carruthers, P. (2009). How we know our own minds: The relationship between mindreading and metacognition (Links to an external site.)
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. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 121–138 doi:10.1017/S0140525X09000545

  5. Decety, J., & Lamm, C. (2007). The role of the right temporoparietal junction in social interaction: How low-level computational processes contribute to meta-cognition (Links to an external site.)
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. Neuroscientist, 13(6), 580–593.

  6. Desautel, D. (2009). Becoming a thinking thinker: Metacognition, self-reflection, and classroom practice (Links to an external site.)
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. Teachers College Records, 111(8).

  7. Dunlosky, J., & Metcalfe, J. (2009). Metacognition (Links to an external site.)
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. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

  8. Flavell, J. H. (1979). Metacognition and cognitive monitoring: A new area of cognitive-developmental inquiry (Links to an external site.)
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. American Psychologist, 34(10), 906–911.

  9. Flavell, J. H. (1987). Speculations about the nature and development of metacognition. In Weinert, F. E., & Kluwe, R. H. (Eds.), Metacognition, motivation, and understanding (Links to an external site.)
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. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

  10. Fleming, S. M., & Dolan, R. J. (2012). The neural basis of metacognitive ability. (Links to an external site.)
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences, 367(1594), 1338–1349. 

  11. Fleming, S. M., Dolan, R. J., & Frith, C. D. (2012). Metacognition: Computation, biology and function (Links to an external site.)
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. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Biological Science, 367(1594), 1280–1286. 

  12. Frith, C. D. (2012). The role of metacognition in human social interactions. (Links to an external site.)
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences, 367(1599), 2213–2223.

  13. Frith, C. D., & Frith, U. (2012). Mechanisms of social cognition (Links to an external site.)
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. Annual Review of Psychology, 63, 287–313. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100449

  14. Hacker, D. J., Dunlosky, & Graesser, A. C. (Eds.) (2009). Handbook of metacognition in education (Links to an external site.)
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. New York, NY: Routledge.

  15. Hofer, B. K., & Sinatra, G. M. (2010). Epistemology, metacognition, and self-regulation: Musings on an emerging field. Metacognition and Learning, 5(1), 113–120.

  16. Khosa, D. K., & Volet, S. E. (2014). Productive group engagement in cognitive activity and metacognitive regulation during collaborative learning: can it explain differences in students’ conceptual understanding? (Links to an external site.)
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. Metacognition and Learning, 9(3), 287-307.

  17. Lai, E. R. (2011). Metacognition: A literature review (Research report prepared for Pearson) (Links to an external site.)
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. New York, NY: Pearson. 

  18. Larkin, S. (2010). Metacognition in young children (Links to an external site.)
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. New York, NY: Routledge.

  19. Leat, D., & Lin, M. (2003). Developing a pedagogy of metacognition and transfer: Some signposts for the generation and use of knowledge and the creation of research partnerships. (Links to an external site.)
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British Educational Research Journal, 29(3), 383–414. doi: 10.1080/01411920301853

  20. Livingston, J. A. (1997). Metacognition: An overview (Links to an external site.)
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. Available at http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED474273.pdf.

  21. Logan, J. M., Castel, A. D., Haber, S., & Biehman, E. J. (2012). Metacognition and the spacing effect: The role of repetition, feedback, and instruction on judgment of learning for massed and spaced rehearsal. Metacognition and Learning, 7(3), 175–195.

  22. McCabe, J. (2011). Metacognitive awareness of learning strategies in undergraduates. Memory and Cognition, 39(3), 462–476.

  23. McCaig, R. G., Dixon, M., Keramatian, K., Liu, I., & Christoff, K. (2010). Improved modulation of rostrolateral prefrontal cortex using real-time fMRI training and meta-cognitive awareness of rostrolateral prefrontal cortex using real-time fMRI training and meta-cognitive awareness. NeuroImage, 55(3), 1298–1305.

  24. McCormick, C. B., Dimmitt, C. A. R. E. Y., & Sullivan, F. R. (2013). Metacognition, learning, and instruction. (Links to an external site.)
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Handbook of Psychology, 69-97.

  25. Middlebrooks, P. G., & Sommer, M. A. (2012). Neuronal correlates of metacognition in primate frontal cortex (Links to an external site.)
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. Neuron, 75(3), 517–530.

  26. Miller, T., & Geraci, L. (2011). Training metacognition in the classroom: the influence of incentives and feedback on exam predictions.  (Links to an external site.)
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Metacognition and Learning, 6(3), 303–314

  27. Peña, A., Kayashima, M., Mizoguchi, R., & Dominguez, R. (2011). Improving students’ metacognitive skills within intelligent educational systems: A review. Foundations of Augmented Cognition, 6780, 442–451.

  28. Pennequin, V., Sorel, O., & Moainguy, M. (2010). Metacognition, executive functions and aging: The effect of training in the use of metacognitive skills to solve mathematical word problems. Journal of Adult Development, 17(3), 168–178.

  29. Robson, S. (2015). Self‐regulation and metacognition in young children: Does it matter if adults are present or not?. British Educational Research Journal.

  30. Schellenberg, S., Negishi, M., & Eggen, P. (2011). The effects of metacognition and concrete encoding strategies on depth of understanding in educational psychology.  (Links to an external site.)
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Teaching Educational Psychology, 7(2), 17–24.

  31. Shea, N., Boldt, A., Bang, D., Yeung, N., Heyes, C., & Frith, C. D. (2014). Supra-personal cognitive control and metacognition (Links to an external site.)
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. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18(4), 186-193.

  32. Shimamura, A. P. (2000). Towards a cognitive neuroscience of metacognition (Links to an external site.)
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. Consciousness and Cognition, 9(2), 313–323. 

  33. Siegel, D. (2012). Mindfulness and neural integration. Tedx Talks. [video] (18:26 minutes). Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiyaSr5aeho  (Links to an external site.)
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  34. Siegel, D. (2013). Are we our mind? TedXPrague. [video] (16:52). Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyhxXwclfNs    (Links to an external site.)
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  35. Son, L. K., & Simon, D. A. (2012). Distributed learning: Data, metacognition, and educational implications. Educational Psychology Review, 24(3), 379–399. 

  36. Stillman, G., & Mevarech, Z. (2010). Metacognition research in mathematics education: From hot topic to mature field. ZDM, 42(2), 145–148.

  37. Tamm, L., Nakonezny, P. A., & Hughes, C. W. (2014). An open trial of a metacognitive executive function training for young children with ADHD (Links to an external site.)
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. Journal of Attention Disorders, 18(6), 551-559.

  38. Tokuhama-Espinosa, T. (2014). Making classrooms better summary: Part 2 (metacognition). [video (Links to an external site.)
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]. (41:44).

  39. Tokuhama-Espinosa, T. (2014). Making classrooms better summary: Part 3 (metacognition). [video (Links to an external site.)
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  40. Veenman, M. V., Wilhelm, P., & Beishuizen, J. J. (2004). The relation between intellectual and metacognitive skills from a developmental perspective (Links to an external site.)
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. Learning and Instruction, 14(1), 89-109.

  41. Wahlheim, C. N., Dunlosky, J., & Jacoby, L. L. (2011). Spacing enhances the learning of natural concepts: An investigation of mechanisms, metacognition, and aging (Links to an external site.)
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. Memory & Cognition, 39(5), 750–763. doi:10.3758/s13421-010-0063-y

  42. Waters, S. H., & Schneider, W. (Eds.). (2009). Metacognition, strategy use and instruction (Links to an external site.)
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. New York, NY: Guilford Press.

  43. Whitebread, D., Bringham, S., Grau, V., Pino Pasternak, D., & Sangster, C. (2007). Development of metacognition and self-regulated learning in young children: Role of collaborative and peer-assisted learning (Links to an external site.)
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. Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 6(3), 433–455(23). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/194589507787382043

  44. Whitebread, D., Coltman, P., Pasternak, D. P., Sangster, C., Grau, V., Bingham, S…. & Demetriou, D. (2009). The development of two observational tools for assessing metacognition and self-regulated learning in young children. (Links to an external site.)
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Metacognition and Learning, 4(1), 63–85.

 

Other Resources

 

  1. Cabrera, D. (2011). How thinking works. [video]. (15:58). Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUqRTWCdXt4  (Links to an external site.)
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  2. Harford Community College. (2014). Metacognition & Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (Links to an external site.)
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  3. Metcalfe, J. & Son, L. (2009). Metacognition in education [video] (6:54). Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiB4rlnjUTQ  (Links to an external site.)
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  4. Walker, J. (2012). Brief intro to metacognition. [video] (1:47). Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVE21QhY-lI   (Links to an external site.)
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