Metacognition: Designing For Transfer

Judy Adkins
Graduate Student
Educational Communications and Technology
University of Saskatchewan

May, 1997

 

Abstract

Successful learners cultivate a repertoire of metacognitive strategies that they apply when and as required by different learning circumstances. Success hinges on the appropriate transfer of relevant strategies. Metacognitive strategy design must take into account this transfer and it is this relationship that is the subject of this paper. It looks briefly at what metacognition is, discusses transfer in the context of metacognition, and concludes with practical implications for instructional design.