METACOGNITIVE MONITORING IN THE SELF-REGULATED LEARNING PARADIGM

Abstract

The paper is focused on the theoretical analysis of some theoretical and methodological aspects of the role and importance of metacognitive monitoring in the self-regulated learning paradigm of university students. In particular, we highlight some approaches to the relation between metacognitive monitoring and students’ self-regulation that is a quite common problem in the university learning activity. Moreover, we also aim at revealing the diverse approaches to the definition of metacognitive monitoring, specifying the nature of relationship between metacognitive monitoring and metacognitive control. The theoretical and comparative methods of studying the role and significance of metacognitive monitoring in the self-regulated learning paradigm have been taken into account. Thus, we tend to consider metacognitive monitoring as the process of assessing the on-going progress and its results in learning, as well as the current state of students’ particular cognitive activity. The accuracy of metacognitive monitoring judgments strongly affects self-regulated learning. Accurate metacognitive monitoring produces more effective regulation, and this, in turn, leads to improved learning. A noteworthy finding is that through properly organized accurate metacognitive monitoring students can at the metacognitive level study cognitive features of knowledge acquisition and the use of learning strategies. Metacognitive control is also central to metacognition. Both monitoring and control form the basis for many theories of self-regulated learning. Inaccurate monitoring is connected to control decisions that are misaligned to learning requirements or task demands. The presented ideas can expand an investigation of metacognitive monitoring accuracy in the learning activity of university students