An Experimental Research On Metacognition Control In High School Students' Studies

Metacognition is recognition on its self-recognition. It is made up of two parts: Metacognition knowledge and metacognition control, the later is the core of the two parts. The metacognition control refers to this: when the students are performing recognitory activity ,they can regard the recognitory activity which is being performed as the conscious target and they continuously control, monitor and adjust it actively and conscientiously. This course includes four sectors: working out a plan;carrying out the control ;checking the result ; taking measures. The metacognition control is carried out at work and we can use the stored knowledge to manage it and control the recognitory activity .It includes three parts: planning controlling and adjusting. If the teacher want to improve the students' study efficiency and guide the students to be the real and active learners. He must improve the students' metacognition abilities and cultivate their skills of metacognition which they carry out in their study.The investigation shows : it is a very common phenomenon that senior students' metacognition is lost or lower. This is closely connected with the traditional teaching methods. The traditional teaching methods.to a great extent, are single inculcation that is we called Teaching -receiving method, making the students become receiver of knowledge and killing the students' initiative of study. Another important reason why the students lose their metacognition is that their teachers don't use enough metacognition knowledge to teach their students in class.Metacognition Control can be improved through the practice. We have done the experiments on metacognition control in the biology class for one year. As a result we find out that the students' scores in biology has been increased and that their initiative of learning biology has also been aroused , so they have deepened their understanding on biology and achieved much. By using guiding , giving lectures , permeating commenting analysing and correcting ways ,we can put the metacognition control into the situation of biology teaching.These practicing contents include: planning and setting up the target; carrying out the tactics and monitoring;checking results and improving the strategies; self-criticism and temporary control. We can let the students face the concrete learning tasks and then set up their aims ;We can let them choose strategies and control the results of it;We can also let them give comments on the learning process and adjust it in time. The teachers should regard the metacognition control practice as the class teaching contents and permeate the biology knowledge to improve the students' metacognitioncontrol ability and practise their carrying out metacognition control, making them become the habitual learners carrying out metacognition control and develop their subjective initiative.Experiments indicate that the result is very notable in metacognition control practice. After doing the experiment and counting up the scores on the Experimental Class and Contrastive Class, we can see these two classes differ greatly in score. So great difference in biology score and great difference in total score show more highly interrelations. This experimental result indicates that the great difference mainly conies from the striking difference in biology mark, while the striking difference in biology mark mainly results from metacognition in biology class. After the metacognition control practice, the questionnaire investigation shows that the students who are in Experimental Class are improved further both in their metacognition control standard and ability. It mainly shows the following sectors :the students can control themselves to .prepare lessons before class^ listen to class attentively, finish their homework and review their lessons in time ; they can choose their learning ways actively and make the new and effective learning ways ;they can also sum up and comment their learning ways which they have already chosen and adjust them in time. This marks t...