Search results for " METACOGNITION"
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THE EDUCATIONAL EFFECTS OF METACOGNITIVE LEARNING AWARENESS ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
2016
The importance of metacognition has been discussed extensively by numerous researchers. Most of the studies on metacognition generally focus on the approaches to foster metacognition or on assessing metacognition. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of metacognitive awareness and learning strategies on student success in Pre-Primary and Primary Education degree course in University of Palermo. The data was gathered from 700 undergraduate students through MAI Metacognitive Awareness Inventory[1] and ALM Awareness Learning Metacognitive [2]. The results showed that Metacognitive awareness and learning strategies have an important role on students’ academic success and they dem…
“DISCIPLINARY ORIENTIRING” AT SCHOOL
2014
The vocational development consists of helping the pupil to move his/her first footsteps in the real exercise of freedom, respecting the different stages of his/her development, so that he/she consistently act according to ethical principles and progresses in the correct direction to find an access to new degrees of freedom and responsibility. In the Academic Years 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 six high school teacher councils of year 4 classes in Palermo have been involved in the project Aracne. Thanks to the collaboration of experts and researchers, they have experimented a vocational development training, through the learning of the disciplinary contents, in order to develop students’ essentia…
Sviluppo di competenze chiave di cittadinanza e di metacognizione attraverso l'insegnamento di Latino e Greco: percezioni di docenti e studenti della…
2020
Sia accademici che legislatori discutono sull'importanza di metodi di apprendimento e insegnamento innovativi per prevenire l'abbandono scolastico e preparare i futuri adulti ad affrontare contesti sociali sfavorevoli. Ecco perché dal 2006 il Parlamento europeo ha incoraggiato tutti i paesi membri a promuovere nella scuola le competenze chiave di cittadinanza e la metacognizione. Tuttavia, mancano studi specifici sulle lingue classiche nella scuola secondaria. L'obiettivo di questo studio è scoprire quali sono le percezioni degli studenti e degli insegnanti italiani e spagnoli riguardo all'apprendimento e all'insegnamento delle lingue classiche secondo la didattica per competenze. Utilizzia…
Rethinking clinical decision-making to improve clinical reasoning
2022
Improving clinical reasoning techniques is the right way to facilitate decision-making from prognostic, diagnostic, and therapeutic points of view. However, the process to do that is to fill knowledge gaps by studying and growing experience and knowing some cognitive aspects to raise the awareness of thinking mechanisms to avoid cognitive errors through correct educational training. This article examines clinical approaches and educational gaps in training medical students and young doctors. The authors explore the core elements of clinical reasoning, including metacognition, reasoning errors and cognitive biases, reasoning strategies, and ways to improve decision-making. The article addres…
La Didattica metacognitiva
2015
La didattica metacognitiva converge nel proporre uno sviluppo pieno delle capacità di ciascuno studente: l'orientamento centrato sull'alunno promuove un comportamento attivo e consapevole. Imparando a conoscere e controllare i propri processi cognitivi, volitivi ed affettivo - motivazionali, si acquisiscono anche gli elementi di base per orientarsi nella complessità del mondo attuale. The metacognitive didactics converge in proposing a full development of the abilities of each student: the orientation centered on the student promotes an active and conscious behavior. By learning to know and control their cognitive, volitive and affective - motivational processes, the basic elements are also…
Diferencias en habilidades y conducta entre grupos de preescolares de alto y bajo rendimiento escolar
2014
Resumen basado en el del autor Título, resumen y palabras clave en español e inglés Disponible la versión en inglés Se analiza la relación entre variables psicológicas y rendimiento escolar en niños preescolares. Se ha seleccionado un conjunto de variables cognitivas y conductuales, que según la bibliografía más actualizada se relacionan con el aprendizaje escolar, con el fin de identificar los factores que parecen influir en el rendimiento educativo en la etapa infantil. La meta final es intentar prevenir problemas de rendimiento futuros mediante la identificación temprana de estas variables en los niños que parecen presentar bajo rendimiento. La muestra se compone de 47 niños: 23 con alto…
Use of Robotics kits for the Enhancement of Metacognitive Skills of Mathematics: a Possible Approach.
2011
The present study is aimed at analyzing the process of building and programming robots as a metacognitive tool of mathematics. Quantitative data from a study performed on a sample of students attending an Italian secondary school are described. Results showed that robotics activities may be used as a new metacognitive environment allowing students to improve their attitude towards mathematics, and to increase their attitude to reflect on themselves and on their own learning, and their higher-level control components, such as forecasting, planning, monitoring and evaluation exercises and problems related to implementation.
La pratica narrativa per una formazione del sé nei luoghi di lavoro
2020
The aim of this work is to highlight the importance of narration for self-training in the workplace. Metacognitive narratives are some of possible approaches able to contribute to renew the pedagogy of work. They represent some of the most valuable sources of selfknowledge and contribute to redefine the concept of work considerning the importance of the develpoment of professional and personal identity
INTERCOMPRENSIÓN COMO HERRAMIENTA PARA SUPERAR LAS BARRERAS LINGÜÍSTICAS: HACIA UNA DIDÁCTICA DE LA INTERCOMPRENSIÓN
2022
The objective of this article is to emphasize the validity of the Intercomprehension not only as a communication practice and strategy but also as a linguistic policy and ethics for the development of multilingualism, that si to say ti si a teaching method used to overcome language barriers. In addition, its teaching within the educational system can be a valuable tool, not only for the development of multilingual scenarios, but also to strengthen policies of cultural integration and inclusion of diversity by contributing to the formation of an European citizenship. In fact, the Intercomprehension can contribute to the construction of a sense of belonging to an European community through th…
Decisional Procrastination in Academic Settings: The Role of Metacognitions and Learning Strategies
2017
Nowadays, university students suffer from a broad range of problems, such as educational underachievement or the inability to control themselves, that lead to procrastination as a consequence. The present research aimed at analyzing the determinants of decisional procrastination among undergraduate students and at assessing a path model in which self regulated learning strategies mediated the relationship between metacognitive beliefs about procrastination and decisional procrastination. 273 students from Southern Italy filled out a questionnaire composed by: the socio-demographic section, the Metacognitive Beliefs About Procrastination Questionnaire, the procrastination subscale of the Mel…