Metacognition can be defined as
"thinking about thinking." Essentially, metacognition focuses on knowledge
acquisition and how a learner "knows" something. This study goes to the heart of how
an individual learns.
Metacognition is essential in a field such as
education. For example, metacognition can be seen when teachers differentiate lessons to
specific learning styles of students or specific intelligences of their students. This is
metacognitive because it focuses on how learning is acquired, and how students learn.
Metacognition can be seen in analyzing how studying for assessments looks different in
different subjects. The way in which a successful student reviews for a Math assessment
involves a different skill set than when writing a paper for an English class. Being able to
break both realities down to students is reflective of metacognition. Students become more
successful when they understand the metacognitive basis for learning and do not simply dismiss
it as "luck" or something arbitrary. There is a reason and rationale behind academic
or intellectual understanding. The exploration of this is metacognition.
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