The Importance Of Ecognition And Recognition, A Metacognitive Process

Metacognition improves learning because it promotes information recognition, it aids comprehension, and encourages self-regulation. Metacognition refers to the awareness and understanding of their own cognitive process, it is thinking about thinking, which promotes information recognition by reflecting and questioning one 's self. It also helps with the comprehension of material and it encourages self regulation, a learning process which consists of a developing a set of behaviour that affects ones learning through planned processes used to adapt to support the pursuit of personal goals. Recognition is the ability to search and to recall ideas or concepts from their own memory. By practicing metacognition the student is constantly searching

Questioning themselves forces them to think critically which will develop ideas further by incorporating key words into whole sections. By questioning themselves the student is actively learning by engaging in the task and monitoring their understanding of the topic. "Self questioning is considered to be a metacognitive strategy because it functions as a form of self testing" (King, 1991, P.332) This strategy is effective because it flips basic knowledge into a connecting point for other ideas. Self testing is the most effective means to determine what information the student has understood and what the student has missed by preparing a set of questions before, during and after any academic task. This strategy also promotes active learning by not only engaging the student in the topic also creates a sort of idea web where key points lead to questions which lead to answers. When a student questions themselves, they are guaranteed to find errors they 've made while trying to develop a strategy. To correct these errors they have to work around them by repairing the strategy and continuing to reach their goal. With the student constantly questioning themselves and monitoring their strategy will open up a portal to the world of self

The learner needs a good attitude and has to be willing to learn or else the process won 't stick," academic procrastination is a motivational problem that involves more than poor time management skills and trait laziness. Procrastinators are difficult to motivate and, therefore are likely to put off doing school assignments and studying for exams" (Eunju, 2008, p.6) ergo students who practice metacognition but do not work to learn outside of it are sure to fail because the lack of knowledge to build upon as a base. Students who are not willing to fortify the fundamentals they have already acquired are guaranteed not to succeed. The process of metacognition may also fail for students who procrastinate because these students have become so accustom to certain habits during lectures, reading or assignments ' that they simple do not know how to learn effectively therefore would not know when to apply the metacognitive strategies, but in the long run the effort put in will reciprocate the final