van Heereveld, Arnout (2020) Motivating students to increase their metacognitive awareness: An exploratory app development study. Master's Thesis / Essay, Human-Machine Communication.
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Abstract
One might expect people who succeed in college to be those most intelligent. However, metacognitive awareness predicts academic success better than intelligence. Metacognition is the awareness, understanding and control someone has over their learning. On the meta level of cognition, learners determine goals and sketch a learning plan. The plan is executed by lower level functions, monitored by the meta level. By monitoring, learners check if their actions are bringing them closer to their goal or whether they need to adjust them. We developed an app to train metacognitive awareness through goal setting, planning and evaluation of learning activities. Motivational incentives were incorporated to compensate for the effort this takes. Through a game, users acquired learning strategies. By learning and reflecting, users earned gold that could be spent in-game. The app was tested with 3rd year students at the university of Groningen. Participants enjoyed the game but struggled to win, which limited the amount of learning done. Learning strategies had to be earned through the game, which participants found limiting since these strategies were not always usable in their learning plan. Whether the app increases metacognitive awareness is inconclusive, but its utility was widely recognized by our participants. The current app provides a framework which can easily be extended, to allow for quick adaption based on lessons learnt from this study and continue testing in future studies.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master's Thesis / Essay) |
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| Supervisor name: | Cnossen, F. |
| Degree programme: | Human-Machine Communication |
| Thesis type: | Master's Thesis / Essay |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2020 09:32 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2020 09:32 |
| URI: | https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/22562 |
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