The Importance Of Metacognition On Students

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Some students find it challenging to figure an effective way to learn about something and unfamiliar. It has been states that students try to find the easy way to learn, but in fact, there is no such thing (Chew, 2011). Developing “effective learning habits” can cause a major impact on how much information you retain while studying (Chew, 2011). Every student has a distinctive way of learning, but “metacognition is a concept that could drastically impact everyone’s learning” (Chew, 2011). According to Dr. Stephen Chew, a cognitive psychologist, metacognition is, “a student’s awareness of their level of understanding of a topic” ( 2011). Dr. Chew descibes “accurate metacognition" as being, the key transformation between a successful student …show more content…

Dr. Chew explains, stuggling students have a sense of “grossly overconfidence in how well they understand the material” therefore, spend less time in actually learning the material, resulting in shock when receiving poor grades on the test (Chew, 2011). Having a poor metacognition may show poor studying techniques (Chew, 2011). Having poor study techniques can effect students by giving them a sense of confidence but in reality they are not learning anything. Dr. Chew explains “the hallmark of poor study strategies is it build overconfidence without increasing actual learning” (Chew, 2011). It is critical that nursing students have to know how implement what has been taught and what they learned in real life situations. In nursing school having accurate metacognition will benefit a students tremendously. Remembering key terms or scanning through chapters are not going to help applying the information to real life situations thus making it difficut to be a successful …show more content…

I try to remember and learn everything word for word in the but and find myself getting overwhelmed. Dr.Chew explains deep learning as, “ relating new information to prior knowledge or making information personally meaningful” (Chew, How to Get the Most Out of Studying: Part 2 of 5, 2011). I find the software thepoint and the practice questions very helpful in helping me understand what I know and need to go back and review. My studying technique consist of listening to podcast, taking the NCLEX style quizzes, studying with a group, as well as reading the assigned text. When listening to the podcast I try to follow along with the book and highlight what the person speaks on and take notes from there. I use the NCLEX style quizzes to help with my anxiety of how the test will be as far as the 1 question per page style. I find is very helping at the end of the quizes, I can see the rationales and compare how and why the correct answers is such. When studying with a group we all section off specific objective and do those, come together and read over everyones answers along with looking at the page to see where we got the answers. If any one disagree we all look at the book and come up with the correct answer as well. Reading the text is my least favorite thing to do because it takes up the most time and I find myself skimming and trying to remember only key terms and words in the

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