# Metacognition: planning, monitoring and evaluating learning

Help learners plan their approach, monitor progress and reflect on outcomes and strategies.

 Method · Education


## Core 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 and jurisdiction
 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.


## Editorial perspectives
  Explicit instruction: teachers first model strategies and thinking.
 Increasing autonomy: expand the scope learners can monitor independently.
 

## Sources
 Education Endowment Foundation · Viewed 2026-10-08
[Metacognition and self-regulation](https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-evidence/teaching-learning-toolkit/metacognition-and-self-regulation) Context: School education research synthesis; reviewed in 2025
 Source checked: 2026-10-08
 Independent editorial summary and source link; the original text is not republished.


## Related personas
  [Teacher](https://personawiki.app/en/personas/teacher) · [Instructional designer](https://personawiki.app/en/personas/instructional-designer)

## Translation status
 Editorial English translation of the Korean edition. No professional translation or occupational expert review has been completed. Translation does not change the source jurisdiction.
 Translation prepared: 2026-10-09 · Source fingerprint: kb-ef7b39a06e51be40
[Korean source](https://personawiki.app/knowledge/metacognitive-learning)

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