Metacognition Feedback Questions

E-CURE faculty questionnaire about metacognitive activities in their classrooms

1. Did you watch the videos that explained metacognition and how it can be supported?

Yes
No

If you answered no to Question 1, please skip to Question 4.

If you answered yes to Question 1:
2. Did the videos provide a clear explanation of metacognition?

Yes, completely
Mostly
Somewhat
Not very much

3. Did the videos provide a clear explanation of how best to support metacognitive thinking among your students?

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4. How helpful to you was the "Guide to Building Metacognition"?

5. Do you have any thoughts on how the Guide might be improved? Please briefly explain.

6. How did you go about introducing the idea of metacognition to your class? Please briefly explain.

7. From the ways in which your students reacted, do you think they understood the concept of metacognition?

Yes, completely
Mostly
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8. Do you think they understood the potential value of metacognition?

Yes, completely
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9. How many of the metacognitive exercises described in the Guide did you assign to your students?

10. Did you assign these as homework or use them as in-class activities or both? Please describe.

11. If you used class time to complete any of the exercises, on average, about how much time did students take to complete the metacognitive exercises and about how much time did you spend on follow-up discussion(s)?

12. Did any students complain that the exercises were too burdensome or not useful?

13. The promise of metacognition is that it can help students to become more aware of their own thinking and develop the ability to adjust their research and learning strategies based on that awareness. On the whole, how much do you think the exercises completed by your students contributed to this goal?

14. From your observation, which of the exercises you used were particularly useful?

15. And were there exercises that you think could benefit from some revision to improve them? If yes, please describe.

16. On the whole, what did your students think of the exercises once they had completed them? They were:

17. Are there any other topics that you would like to see addressed in future exercises? If you are answering yes, please identify the topics.

18. The "Guide to Building Metacognition" suggests five ways in which to reinforce metacognitive exercises with class activities:
Batch instructor feedback
Think-pair-share
Group activity
Metacognitive "time-outs"
Ticket out
Did you employ any of these activities? Yes or No, please explain:

19. How did you follow up with your class in discussing the metacognitive exercises they completed? Please describe your approach to this and how well you think it worked. Also estimate the amount of time needed to implement the activity(ies) you used.

20. Overall, how helpful were the activities you used in advancing student metacognitive awareness?

21. Do you have any additional thoughts you would like to share with us?

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