The Active Ingredients in Effective Metacognition Interventions – A Common Elements Approach (Poster 19)

• In Event: Excellence in Education Research: Early Career Scholars and Their Work Poster Session

Abstract

Metacognition, the ability to monitor and control one’s cognitive processes, is crucial for success at school and learning throughout life. Meta-analyses have shown that metacognition interventions are effective for young learners and teaching these skills early will pay off later. One possible reason why many teachers do not promote metacognition in class, may be that available interventions are multicomponent approaches making them time intense to implement. Thus, flexible, easy-to-implement, and inexpensive metacognition interventions are needed. In the current research project, a common elements approach was applied to develop such interventions. This approach involves the identification and combination of common practice and instructional elements across metacognition interventions and the grouping of these elements to metacognition kernels for various academic outcomes.

Author

• Janina Eberhart, University of Tübingen