Assignment task: Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning Interview Assignment Instructions
Overview:
It is known that learners' effectiveness at transferring knowledge with abundant or limited flexible thinking using various metacognitive strategies reflects their general intelligence. This assignment provides an opportunity to examine how effective learners regularly plan for their learning, monitor it, reflect on it, strive to improve it, and fuel their motivation for learning across a myriad of settings. Through data collection and analysis, this assignment allows you to apply your qualitative research skills and developing knowledge of metacognition and selfregulated learning principles.
Instructions:
To complete this assignment, you need to interview an individual to determine what they do not understand about their own metacognitive processes. Depending on the participant's age, you will need to develop interview questions that probe the individual's understanding of their own thinking and how they self-regulate their learning based on the principles and concepts introduced in this module's Learn material. Before the interview, compose 5-10 questions that are most appropriate and relevant for your interview participant. You may select questions from the Interview Question Examples list provided below or form questions of your own.
After conducting the interview, complete a written report of the interview containing each of the sections noted below. Each section should have 1-2 paragraphs (4-8 paragraphs total) of at least 5-7 sentences and 250-350 words for each paragraph.
- Introduction - Describe the individual you interviewed, why you selected them, and the interview setting. Describe your positionality or role/identity in relation to the participant and how this potentially impacted your results.
- Methods - Provide your interview protocol, including the questions you developed.
- Results - Summarize the themes or patterns that emerged during your interview.
- Conclusion - Synthesize your results with the foundational and theoretical principles of metacognition and self-regulated learning. Discuss what you have learned during this activity. A minimum of three sources are required to support your conclusion and discussion. Acceptable sources include the textbook and scholarly articles published within the last five years.
Include a title page, abstract, and references section. Use current APA formatting throughout your paper.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.
Interview Question Examples
- What is thinking?
- What is learning?
- What do you do when you need to remember something?
- What things do you do in your head when you're trying to study for a test?
- How do you prepare to study?
- When you're studying, how do you stay focused? How do you remember what you studied?
- What would you do if you wanted to remember to bring something to school the next day?
- How do you continue to study and prepare for future learning/studying?
When you read a reading assignment in a textbook:
- Is there anything special you do to get ready to read the assignment?
- How do you identify the most important ideas in the text?
- Does your attention sometimes drift away from what you are reading? If so, how do you know when this is happening? Do you have any particular strategies for keeping your attention on the text?
- How do you know when you understand what you are reading?
- What do you do when you don't understand what you are reading?
When you listen to a lecture in class:
- How do you identify the most important ideas in the lecture?
- Do you take notes? If so, what kind of notes do you take?
- Do your notes help? If so, in what way?
- Does your attention sometimes drift away from the lecture? If so, how do you know when this is happening? Do you have strategies for keeping your attention on the lecture?
- How do you know when you understand what you are hearing?
- What do you do when you don't understand what you are hearing?
When you study for a test:
- What criteria do you use to decide how long you will study?
- What criteria do you use to decide when you will study?
- How do you know when you understand what you are studying?
- What do you do when you don't understand what you are studying?