{"id":"metacognitive-learning","title":"Metacognition: planning, monitoring and evaluating learning","summary":"Help learners plan their approach, monitor progress and reflect on outcomes and strategies.","concepts":["Planning: set task objectives and choose learning strategies","Monitoring: check understanding and strategy suitability during performance","Evaluation: reflect on outcomes and process and adjust the next strategy"],"application":"Model thinking aloud and build self-questioning and reflection into subject learning. Adjust support to current knowledge and task difficulty.","limitations":"Do not interpret research averages as guarantees for an individual learner. General thinking exercises detached from subject knowledge cannot be assumed to produce the same effects.","directions":["Explicit instruction: teachers first model strategies and thinking.","Increasing autonomy: expand the scope learners can monitor independently."],"category":"Education","kind":"method","kind_label":"Method","persona_ids":["teacher","instructional-designer"],"revision":1,"updated_at":"2026-10-08T00:00:00.000Z","sources":[{"title":"Metacognition and self-regulation","publisher":"Education Endowment Foundation","url":"https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-evidence/teaching-learning-toolkit/metacognition-and-self-regulation","edition":"Viewed 2026-10-08","region":"School education research synthesis; reviewed in 2025","checked_at":"2026-10-08","reuse":"Independent editorial summary and source link; the original text is not republished."}],"review":{"status":"source-checked-editorial","expert_reviewed":false},"editorial_note":"Editorial English translation of the Korean edition. No professional translation or occupational expert review has been completed. Translation does not change the source jurisdiction.","language":"en","translation":{"status":"current","source_language":"ko","source_version":"kb-ef7b39a06e51be40","translated_at":"2026-10-09","professional_reviewed":false},"trust":"reference-data","version":"kb-d07a1dc29ce51a02","links":{"document":"/en/knowledge/metacognitive-learning","markdown":"/en/knowledge/metacognitive-learning.md","api":"/api/v1/knowledge/metacognitive-learning?lang=en"}}