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Improving Metacognitive Skills, Jim Stewart, Mike Greiner, Cassandra Cook
Improving Metacognitive Skills, Jim Stewart, Mike Greiner, Cassandra Cook
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Research Question: Can a short, weekly email reflection from students in introductory physics courses be structured to improve students’ thinking about their own thinking?
Method: By analyzing student responses we will refine the writing prompt and scoring guidelines so that, starting fall 2008, we can begin a longitudinal study in which we follow individual students through at least two quarters of the introductory physics course.