A Sustainable Training Method of Metacognitive Skills in Daily Lab-activities

Abstract

Metacognitive thinking skills that monitor and control one’s thoughts, are an essential and important competency in various fields/domains. In order to promote learners’ metacognitive activities, we have researched and confirmed that learner’s and expert’s eye-movement information during critical reading of the learner’s own paper, contributes to enhancing the learner’s metacognitive inference activities (MIA) and their metacognitive knowledge (Ogino et al., 2017). In this study, we embedded our metacognitive learning method into daily lab-activities in order to sustainably promote learners’ MIA. This metacognitive learning design was continuously employed in our laboratory for three months. Experimental results showed that our proposed learning design was successfully adapted in learners’ daily lab-activities.