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Option 3 : Thinking about one's own thinking processes
Cognition is the mental processing of information, which is the function of the human mind that allows perceptions to grow into conceptions. When we have control over our own cognitive functions that are termed metacognition.
Characteristics of metacognitive capabilities:
- Metacognition makes students' thoughts divergent and gives them control over their own functionalities.
- A teacher should have to promote the development of the metacognition of the students through different activities, experiments, and hand-on-performances.
- Metacognitive strategies include Self-correction by evaluating himself in solving the problem.
- It means processes designed for students to 'think' about their own 'thinking'.
- Metacognitive capabilities as a way to access the process and learning. The metacognitive strategies provided teachers with concrete actions and thought processes to reflect upon.
- If a student is able to think about their thinking/way of thinking, it is much more beneficial for their learning, they can improve their learning by changing their thoughts.
- It deals with the individual's awareness of the self as a knower and processor of information.
- It is strategic or reflective knowledge about how to go about solving problems, and cognitive tasks, including contextual and conditional knowledge and knowledge of self.
- Metacognitive knowledge is directed towards achieving the learning outcome.
Thus by all these references, we can say that Thinking about one's own thinking processes is the main characteristic of metacognitive skills.
Hint
- Metacognitive skills never promote rote learning, it always emphasizes conceptual learning by thinking about their own views in the context of concepts.
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