Using Reflection and Metacognition to Improve Student Learning: Across the Disciplines, Across the Academy

Research has identified the importance of helping students develop the ability to monitor their own comprehension and to make their thinking processes explicit, and indeed demonstrates that metacognitive teaching strategies greatly improve student engagement with course material.

This book — by presenting principles that teachers in higher education can put into practice in their own classrooms — explains how to lay the ground for this engagement, and help students become self-regulated lear...