Metacognition in Science Education: Trends in Current Research

Introduction.- Metacognition in science education: Definitions, constituents, and their intricate relation with cognition.- Reading science: How a naive view of reading hinders so much else.- Metacognitive knowledge and field-based science learning in an outdoor environmental education program.- The role of metacognition in students' understanding and transfer of explanatory structures in science.- Self-regulated learning and conceptual development in young children: The development of biological understanding.- The role of knowledge integration in learning chemistry with dynamic visualization.- The relationship between metacognition and the ability to pose questions in chemical education.- Explicit teaching of meta-strategic knowledge: definitions, student' learning, and teachers' professional development.- A metacognitive teaching strategy for pre-service teachers: Collaborative diagnosis of conceptual understanding in science.- Toward convergence of critical thinking, metacognition, and reflection: Illustrations from natural and social sciences, teacher education and classroom practice.