Fall 2023
Academic Success Common
Hour: Developing
Metacognitive Skills
Assignment
What is metacognition?
Metacognition is thinking
about your own thinking and
refers to the ability to reflect
upon, understand,
manipulate, and regulate your
thinking during learning.
Thoughtful learners plan,
monitor progress, adjust
strategies as needed, and
evaluate learning.
What is the Assignment
Activity?
In order to complete this
assignment, you must select
an assignment from another
course or for the academic
portion of your Chicago
Quarter course. This
assignment will require you to
think about your selected
assignment and by doing so
will assist you with developing
your own metacognitive skills
and with becoming a
thoughtful learner.
Directions:
Write a typed 2-page, doublespaced paper that responds to
all of the questions within
each of the steps.
STEP ONE: Assignment Selection
Select an assignment from another course or from the academic portion
of your Chicago Quarter course. This could be a paper, a group project, a
research paper, a quiz/test, etc. A D2L post would not be a sufficient
assignment for this activity. Use your work towards and completion of
the selected assignment to inform this activity.
STEP TWO: Plan for the Assignment
1. What is the instructor’s goal in having me do this assignment?
2. When is the assignment due?
3. How much time do I need to complete the assignment? What is my
timeline for getting the assignment done?
4. What are all the things I need to do to successfully accomplish this
assignment?
5. What skills (research, technology, writing, public speaking) are required
of me to complete the assignment?
6. If I have done something like this before, how could I use that
experience to help me?
7. What resources do I need to complete the assignment? How will I
access and utilize these resources?
STEP THREE: Monitor Your Progress
1. What strategies am I using that are working well or not working well to
help me learn?
2. What other resources could I be using to complete this assignment?
What action should I take to get these?
3. What is most challenging for me about this task? What is most
confusing?
4. What could I do differently mid-assignment to address these
challenges and confusion?
STEP FOUR: Self-Evaluation
1. To what extent did I successfully accomplish the goals of the task?
2. To what extent did I use resources available to me?
3. If I were the instructor, what would I identify as strengths of my work
and flaws in my work?
4. When I do an assignment or task like this again, what do I want to
remember to do differently? What worked well for me that I should use
next time?