Cluster 5 – Comprehension Monitoring and Learning Taxonomies

- ability to observe and assess the quality of one's understanding of learning materials- includes: active listening, self-testing, and active reading

- to believe you already knew the information once it is presented

- tendency for people to be overconfident in their ability to recall information in the future

- foresight and hindsight bias- overconfidence about the level of knowledge and understanding in an area

- promotes encoding and storage of information into long term memory

- Remembering- Understanding- Applying- Analyzing- Evaluating- Creating

- memorizing and recalling learned material

- compare, interpret, and describe

- solve problems and implement learning materials

- examine separate parts of learning material- comparing

- make informed judgements about information

- combine learning elements in a new way

more stress = lower performance

- awareness of triggers- awareness of stress perception (not blowing things out of proportion)

- syllabus- study guides- read textbook questions- questions asked during lecture

- brain dump- look over questions (how many are there? What is each one worth?)- answer easy items first, star difficult ones- use all your time provided

- avoid universal qualifiers- what is the question asking for?- find the answer in another question- are the answers related to the question?- read all answers listed