Using reflection and metacognition to improve student learning : across the disciplines, across the academy

Title

Using reflection and metacognition to improve student learning : across the disciplines, across the academy / edited by Matthew Kaplan, Naomi Sliver, Danielle LaVaque-Manty, and Deborah Meizlish ; foreword by James Rhem.

Format

Book

Edition

First edition.

Published

Sterling, Virginia : Stylus, 2013.

Description

xii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other contributors

Kaplan, Matthew (Matthew Lee), editor of compilation.
Sliver, Naomi, editor of compilation.
LaVaque-Manty, Danielle, 1968- editor of compilation.
Meizlish, Deborah, editor of compilation.

Uniform series

New pedagogies and practices for teaching in higher education series.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Reflective pedagogies and the metacognitive turn in college teaching / Naomi Silver
• Make exams worth more than the grade / Marsha C. Lovett
• Improving critical-thinking skills in introductory biology through quality practice and metacognition / Paula P. Lemons, Julie A. Reynolds, Amanda J. Curtin-Soydan, and Ahrash N. Bissell
• Reflection and metacognition in engineering practice / Denny Davis, Michael Trevisan, Paul Leiffer, Jay McCormack, Steven Beyerlein, M. Javed Khan, and Patricia Brackin
• "The steps of the ladder keep going up" / Mary C. Wright, Jeffrey L. Bernstein, and Ralph Williams
• Implementing metacognitive interventions in discplinary writing classes / Mika LaVaque-Manty and E. Margaret Evans
• Designs for writing / E. Ashley Hall, Jane Danielewicz, and Jennifer Ware
• Reflection, ePortfolios, and WEPO / Kathleen Blake Yancey, Leigh Graziano, Rory Lee, and Jennifer O'Malley.

Subject headings

College teaching--Psychological aspects.
Learning, Psychology of.
Metacognition.

ISBN

9781579228248 (cloth : alk. paper)
1579228240 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781579228255 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1579228259 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781579228262 (library e-edition)
9781579228279 (Consumer e-book)
1579228275 (Consumer e-book)
9781579228279 (Consumer e-book)