Metacognition
What to know
The Early Days
Support Resources
Round Up
100

Your awareness of how well you truly understand a concept.

What is metacognition?

100

In the brain plasticity prep work, the path best used to describe knowing a subject quite well. 

What is a well-established path? 
100

The library's primary website students can use to look for books and other resources online.

What is Primo?

100

You can find the librarian who can help with research in this specific location in the library.

Where is the desk on the left-hand side when you enter the library? OR Where is the reference desk?

100

Color personality for students who enjoy action and love to be involved in activities. 

What is orange? 

200

The result of highly practiced behaviors that require little to no conscious effort

What is automaticity?

200

True or False? Students should review class notes within 24 hours of taking them.

What is True? Class notes should be reviewed within 24 hours!

200

Positive aspects of your character demonstrated through your thoughts and actions - the best of you, personal qualities, your talents, things you do well.

What are character strengths?

200

These specific faculty members help students with career planning and career assessments.

What are the faculty counselor advisors?

200

Lack of interest seems to play a role in _________. All students from time to time lack interest in a course, however, not all of these students delay in studying or completing assignments.

What is procrastination?

300

Studying until recall is quick and easy

What is overlearning?

300

Elaboration

Distinctiveness

Personalize information

Appropriate Retrieval & Application

What are the qualities of deep processing? 

300

The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the ___________. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.

What is growth mindset?

300

These are specifically for in-library use and serve as a permanent resource for students who need to find specified information about a topic.

What are reference books?

300

Connections to people and to what they know and have.

What is social capital?

400

The level of processing involves studying meaningless, superficial properties of what you are trying to learn, like mindless re-reading or memorization.

What is shallow processing?

400

Students should take notes while reading the textbook and then study those notes instead of re-reading the textbook. 

What is true?

400

Studying information in a way that makes it meaningful and relating it to your prior knowledge; engaging with the concepts rather than just memorizing the information

What is deep processing?

400

Two support resources that assist students with research papers and math homework.

What are the Writing Center and Tutoring Center?

400

An individuals acquired abilities: Skills, talents, knowledge, expertise.

What is human capital?

500

The most important factor in successful learning is

1. The intention and desire to learn 

2. Paying close attention to the material as you study 

3. Learning in a way that matches your personal learning style 

4. The time you spend studying 

5. What you think about while studying

What is number 5?

500

A form of note taking where the note taker uses symbols and pictures to help connect the major ideas. The value is that the icons or symbols become metaphors, which help to generate connections between ideas more easily.

What are visual notes?

500

The idea that the brain is amazingly resilient and our brains physically change as we learn.

What is brain plasticity or neuroplasticity?

500
A form used to identify important information in a reading and thoughts/feelings about that information. 

What is an Evidence and Interpretation log? 

500

The elements of W.O.O.P goal setting.

What are wish, outcome, obstacles, and plan?