Librería Samer Atenea
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An important goal in contemporary educational psychology research is adolescentstudents’ development of higher‐order thinking, which includes, among otherthings, that these students become competent and independent learners andproblem solvers. This goal comes forth from the notion of education for life thatemphasizes that students can direct their learning and problem solving of theirown accord. Especially high‐school students can encounter difficulties inindependent learning and problem solving when they make the transition to highereducation. To counter this, these students need to possess, among other things,metacognitive knowledge, which they may have insufficiently.This book offers new insights about late adolescent students’ understanding of their metacognitiveknowledge regarding learning and problem solving. It offers a description of a research project conductedto obtain a better understanding of the students’ abilities and views with respect to what theirmetacognitive knowledge encompasses, and how they attempt to develop, apply, and improve thisknowledge regarding learning and the solving of mathematical and first‐language problems in a moreeffective way of their own accord. Specifically, the results of the studies of the research project enable us tounderstand metacognitive knowledge better, in that it providesexplanations about the students’ development of this knowledge acrossdomains. This book offers further details in terms of providing evidence fortheory building regarding metacognitive knowledge.
