Search results for " METACOGNITION"
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Educational Robotics to Improve Mathematical and Metacognitive Skills
2017
This paper describes the use of robotic kits as tools in developing mathematical and metacognitive skills, as the planning, reasoning and problem solving capabilities in young students. A sample of 30 students involved in an extracurricular laboratory based on robotics activities (10 meetings; three hours each, once a week). Quantitative and qualitative data showed that robotics activities may be intended as a new metacognitive environment that allows students to improve the attitude in mathematics, or increase the propensity to reflect on themselves and on their own learning, and higher-level control components, such as forecasting, planning, monitoring and evaluation exercises and problem…
Educational Robotics to develop of executive functions visual spatial abilities, planning and problem solving
2018
Educational robotics is an innovative learning tool that offers students the opportunities to develop higher-order thinking skills. This research aims to verify the effectiveness of educational robotics on the mental processes of planning and problem solving. Robotics education involved in a curricular laboratory (10 meetings, two hours each, once a week) with 15 children, attending their fifth year at primary school. The proposed methodology was divided into three phases: Pre-test, Practice and Post-Test. The main finding was a significant improvement in visuo-spatial attention and a significant effect on robot programming skills. These data provide scientific support to the hypothesis tha…
Metamemoria
2019
La memoria ha una rilevanza indiscutibile nei processi di apprendimento, in quanto ci permette di assimilare, ritenere e richiamare ciò che abbiamo appreso tramite l’esperienza e, su questa base, organizzare le nuove informazioni e conoscenze. In particolare, la memoria di lavoro (ML), in stretta connessione con quella a breve termine, ci permette di usare le informazioni immagazzinate temporaneamente per l’esecuzione di compiti cognitivi complessi. La ricerca ha inoltre dimostrato che buoni livelli di ML si correlano a un apprendimento efficace.Rivolto a bambini e ragazzi dai 6 ai 13 anni, Metamemoria rappresenta una proposta efficace e accattivante per il potenziamento della memoria nelle…
LEARNING STYLES AND METACOGNITION
2014
In this paper we introduce the results of a research that involved 60 primary school pupils. Attention is drawn to a relevant issue in instructional research: the potential value to learners of metacognitive awareness. Some implications of these issues for learning styles research are then discussed. The purpose of this study was to investigate how students perceive learning and their learning styles preferences. Through a reflection on relations between the personalization of education and knowledge of learning styles, we will emphasize how the very important issue, for a teacher, is to create his own working knowledge on his students' learning styles, if he really wants effectively stimul…
Metacognizione e comprensione della lettura: quale rapporto?
2019
Una lettura competente implica l’utilizzo di specifiche strategie meta-cognitive e molteplici livelli di elaborazione delle informazioni che, se impiegate in modo consapevole, migliorano la comprensione. In que-sto lavoro si presenta un approfondimento sulla relazione tra metaco-gnizione, thinking aloud e comprensione della lettura, che si colloca all’interno alla ricerca nazionale RC-RT descritta in questo stesso vo-lume e volta a verificare l’efficacia del Reciprocal Teaching nel contesto italiano. Dopo aver presentato alcune ricerche svolte su allievi di età diverse finalizzati ad evidenziare il rapporto tra la comprensione della lettura e le abilità di secondo livello, raggruppate sotto…