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Increasing Student Metacognition and Learning through Classroom-Based Learning Communities and Self-Assessment.


ABSTRACT: Student overconfidence challenges success in introductory biology. This study examined the impact of classroom learning communities and self-assessment on student metacognition and subsequent impact on student epistemological beliefs, behaviors, and learning. Students wrote weekly self-assessments reflecting on the process of learning and received individual feedback. Students completed a learning strategies inventory focused on metacognition and study behaviors at the beginning and end of the semester and a Student Assessment of their Learning Gains (SALG) at the end of the semester. Results indicated significant changes in both metacognition and study behaviors over the course of the semester, with a positive impact on learning as determined by broad and singular measures. Self-assessments and SALG data demonstrated a change in student beliefs and behaviors. Taken together, these findings argue that classroom learning communities and self-assessment can increase student metacognition and change student epistemological beliefs and behaviors.

SUBMITTER: Siegesmund A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4858356 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Increasing Student Metacognition and Learning through Classroom-Based Learning Communities and Self-Assessment.

Siegesmund Amy A  

Journal of microbiology & biology education 20160504 2


Student overconfidence challenges success in introductory biology. This study examined the impact of classroom learning communities and self-assessment on student metacognition and subsequent impact on student epistemological beliefs, behaviors, and learning. Students wrote weekly self-assessments reflecting on the process of learning and received individual feedback. Students completed a learning strategies inventory focused on metacognition and study behaviors at the beginning and end of the s  ...[more]

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