Abstract

Strategies to increase metacognition in nursing students and other healthcare professionals have been a recent focus in the literature. Metacognition is an understanding of how to think and learn (Chen, Björkman, Zou, & Engström, 2019) Metacognitive skills of self-direction of learning and self-regulation of learning are correlated with critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, significant to academic success and clinical decision-making (Medina, Castleberry & Persky,2017). Students in an accelerated master's direct entry prelicensure program demonstrated gaps in the metacognitive skills of efficiently self-assessing learning needs and selecting effective learning strategies. Collaborative testing and exam wrappers were implemented to improve self-assessment, self-direction, and self-regulation of learning metacognitive skills.

Author Details

Kathleen Marie Mullen, DNP, MA, RN, CNE

Sigma Membership

Alpha Zeta

Lead Author Affiliation

Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

Type

Poster

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Other

Research Approach

Mixed/Multi Method Research

Keywords:

Metacognition, Nursing Students, Metacognition Skills, Collaborative Testing, Peer Interaction

Conference Name

Sigma European Region Annual Conference

Conference Host

European Region - Sigma

Conference Location

Virtual Event

Conference Year

2020

Rights Holder

All rights reserved by the author(s) and/or publisher(s) listed in this item record unless relinquished in whole or part by a rights notation or a Creative Commons License present in this item record.

All permission requests should be directed accordingly and not to the Sigma Repository.

All submitting authors or publishers have affirmed that when using material in their work where they do not own copyright, they have obtained permission of the copyright holder prior to submission and the rights holder has been acknowledged as necessary.

Review Type

Abstract Review Only: Reviewed by Event Host

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Poster

Additional Files

Abstract.pdf (157 kB)

Share

COinS
 

Implementing collaborative testing with exam wrappers to improve metacognition

Virtual Event

Strategies to increase metacognition in nursing students and other healthcare professionals have been a recent focus in the literature. Metacognition is an understanding of how to think and learn (Chen, Björkman, Zou, & Engström, 2019) Metacognitive skills of self-direction of learning and self-regulation of learning are correlated with critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, significant to academic success and clinical decision-making (Medina, Castleberry & Persky,2017). Students in an accelerated master's direct entry prelicensure program demonstrated gaps in the metacognitive skills of efficiently self-assessing learning needs and selecting effective learning strategies. Collaborative testing and exam wrappers were implemented to improve self-assessment, self-direction, and self-regulation of learning metacognitive skills.