"Oh, that makes sense": Social Metacognition in Small-Group Problem Solving.

ABSTRACT: Stronger metacognition, or awareness and regulation of thinking, is related to higher academic achievement. Most metacognition research has focused at the level of the individual learner. However, a few studies have shown that students working in small groups can stimulate metacognition in one another, leading to improved learning. Given the increased adoption of interactive group work in life science classrooms, there is a need to study the role of social metacognition, or the awareness and regulation of the thinking of others, in this context. Guided by the frameworks of social metacognition and evidence-based reasoning, we asked: 1) What metacognitive utterances (words, phrases, statements, or questions) do students use during small-group problem solving in an upper-division biology cou

SUBMITTER: Halmo SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9582819 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature