Session T3B DEVELOPING TECHNIQUES FOR MEASURING AND ENHANCING STUDENTS' COGNITIVE AND METACOGNITIVE SKILLS
W.J. Staats, David A. Dean, Donald E. Miles, Toni L. Blum, Ssu-yu Lu · 2003
Abstract- While previous work established that some self-report measures of metacognition correlate highly with programming and other CS skills [2,3], the current pilot project seeks to develop a behavioral task measure of metacognition and to use exercises modeled on this behavioral task to teach and enhance metacognitive skills. These exercises, based on work by Deanna Kuhn at Columbia University, are to be incorporated in an undergraduate computer science program for the purpose of enhancing cognitive and metacognitive skills that have been identified as important for computer scientists [2,3]. First, the pilot study established a baseline comparison between the MSI [2,3,18] and one of Kuhn’s most widely used causal inferencing tasks [10,11], dubbed the “boat-races ” (BOATS) task. Second, the pilot study established a