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Anderson, David; Thomas, Gregory P.; Nashon, Samson M. – Science Education, 2009
This paper reports on a study that employed metacognition and social cognition theoretical frameworks to explore and interpret students' views of their cognitive roles and the nature of the mechanisms that they considered influenced and mediated their learning within small group contexts. An instrumental interpretive case study methodology was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Social Cognition, Biology
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Anderson, David; Nashon, Samson – Science Education, 2007
It is recognized widely that learning is a dynamic and idiosyncratic process of construction and reconstruction of concepts in response to new experiences. It is influenced by the learner's prior knowledge, motivation, and sociocultural context. This study investigated how year 11 and 12 physics students' metacognition influences the development…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Physics, Figurative Language, Metacognition