Metacognition

A review of Internet resources on metacognition provides one with a diverse perspectives of exactly what metacognition means. If we look at a Web site entitled General Metacognition, we see the process defined as "The awareness of and control over one's cognitive processes" (General, 2001, 1). While this may be one of the more succinct definitions of metacognition available on the Web, it does little to really tell us what it means. Another Web site that is an extract culled from the Strategic Teaching and Reading Project Guidebook published by the NCREL, depicts an elaborate schema for what metacognition means. To begin with, the information breaks metacognition into three elements that once more do not really tell us what the concept means:

The above definition not only differs from the first one provided, but, as anyone can plainly see it mentions nothing about cognitive workings that explain the metacognitive phenomenon. In order to shed some light on these elements of metacognition, the site provides three lists of the questions an individual asks themselves during each of the three phases of metacognition. For example, during the Before phase, an individual would ask themselves questions such as "What should I do first?" and "In what direction do I want my thinking to take me?" (Metacognition, 1995, 1). The During phase inc

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