1. The act of thinking about thinking.
2. Metacognition is the awareness individuals have of their own mental processes and the subsequent ability to monitor, regulate, and direct themselves to a desired end. Students demonstrate metacognition if they can articulate what strategies they used to read and understand a text. (http://www.learner.org/workshops/readingk2/front/keyterms2.html)
Meta is used to mean about and cognition is the scientific term for "process of thought."
Being metacognitive is the knowledge of how human beings learn and process information as well as understanding your own personal learning processes.
http://academic.pgcc.edu/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/metacognition.htm
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