Alexis Williams's List: Metacognition in Adult Education

This summary of Marsha Lovett's presentation, "Teaching Metacognition" provides and short and sweet overview of the role of metacognitive skills in learning and strategies for increasing learner skills in this area.

Slides from Martha Lovett's presentation referenced in "Teaching Metacognition Overview".

A scholarly article on the role of metacognition in learning. This article defines metacognition, various metacognitive process and strategies, and how teacher might use and assess metacognition to aid learners.

This report examine issues related to metacognition in adult literacy. It reviews the science of metacognition in children and adults, and makes some recommendations for more research. It also identifies individual factors that impact metacognition and instructional factors that impact metacognition and literacy.

This toolkit provides resources for adult education courses to use in their classes to enhance metacognitive skills. The toolkit outlines the "equipped for the future"  teaching/learning cycle, provides examples of how the steps are used in adult education and tools to implement the process. The process is focused on adult education offered over time like a GED course. However some of the the tools may be useful in more limited training situations.

This paper provides a very useful overview of metacognition in adult learning. It reviews the science of metacognition and provides several useful models that illustrate different ways to conceptualize metacognition. It also reviews metacognition in teaching and learning and, again, provides several helpful models.

This video from the Pennsylvania Department of Education also focuses on metacognition in K-12 education. However it provides a nice overview to how teachers can enhance the use of metacognitive skills that would also apply in an adult education or training situation.

While this prezi is not focused on adult learners, it does provide a useful introduction to metacognition and how teachers can enhance student's metacognitive skills.