Metacognitive skills?

Question

I stumbled on to an article explaining that cognitive skills are skills requiring thinking, problem solving, etc. and "metacognitive" skills are skills involved in evaluating cognitive skills. So assembling a jigsaw puzzle might be a congnitive but judging how good someone is at assembling jigsaw puzzles is a metacognitive skill.
The author's point was that there is a high correlation betwnn cognitive skills and metacognitive skills.

What this means is that people are not good at something are also not very good at realizing that they are not very good at it. This means that relying on anyone's self-evaluation of their skills is a big mistake. Suppose there's some skill that could be rated 0 to 100. If someone is a 90 they will probably accurately assess their self as a 90, but if someone is 40 they might assess their self as a 90. So when you see a self-assessment of 90 it tells you nothing.

Thoughts?

Answer 1

It means it is possible for people to be so ignorant they not only don't realize it, but they think they're smart.

Answer 2

Metacognition is thinking about one's own thought process, or thinking about the thought process in general. Assessing someone's problem solving skills isn't metacognition, it's assessment.

Sometimes people who are not good at something know it, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they are told and they won't accept it, sometimes that pays off (Clint Eastwood), and sometimes it doesn't. Evaluating one's own ability to do something is also assessment (self-assessment), not metacognition, even if what you're assessing is a cognitive process.

How metacognition differs from assessment is that assessment is evaluative, and metacognition is process-interested. Tell me what your professor thinks. ;-)

Answer 3

What kind of thoughts do you want .. cognitive or metacognitive?

Answer 4

thank you :) It really helps me a lot for my field study.