LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS:

METACOGNITIVE STRATEGIES THAT

FACILITATE THE

LEARNING PROCESS

DEFINITIONS:

LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS ARE CONSTRUCTIVE IN NATURE, ENGAGING

LEARNERS IN ‘SENSE-MAKING’ OR REASONING ABOUT EXTENSIVE

RESOURCE SETS (HANNAFIN, LAND AND OLIVER,1999)

THE DOMAIN WHERE LEARNING TAKES PLACE AND HOW IT IMPACTS UPON

LEARNING. (TAMEZ AND SURLES,2004)

THIS IS A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

HOW MAY AN INDIVIDUAL MEDIATE DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS TO FACILITATE THEIR OWN

LEARNING PROCESS?

THIS IS A DIFFERENT CLASS ROOM

IT HAS BEEN POSTULATED THAT

INDIVIDUALS WHO EMPLOY

METACOGNITIVE STRATEGIES ARE MORE

SUCCESSFUL IN ACHIEVING THEIR

LEARNING GOALS IN ANY TYPE OF

LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

WHAT IS METACOGNITION?

SIMPLY STATED: IT IS THINKING ABOUT THINKING.

METACOGNITION CONSISTS OF TWO BASIC PROCESSES OCCURRING

SIMULTANEOUSLY:

1.MONITORING YOUR PROGRESS AS YOU LEARN AND MAKING CHANGES AND

2. ADAPTING YOUR STRATEGIES IF YOU PERCEIVE YOU ARE NOT DOING WELL.

RESEARCH QUESTION:

HOW EFFECTIVE ARE METACOGNITIVE

STRATEGIES IN LEARNING THE BASICS OF

CONTROLLING AN AIRCRAFT BY SOMEONE

WHO IS NOT FAMILIAR WITH SUCH

PROCESSES?

METACOGNITION MAY BE THOUGHT OF AS CONSISTING OF THE

FOLLOWING:

• DEVELOPING A PLAN OF ACTION.

• MAINTAINING OR MONITORING THE PLAN WITH ACTION.

• EVALUATING PLAN

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY:

• QUALITATIVE IN NATURE.

• SELF-REPORTING OF HOW AND WHY.

• IMMEDIATE RESPONSE FROM PIC.

• FOUR TRIALS.

• VIDEO OF TRIALS.

• POST EVALUATIONS