ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the overarching principle that enables students to stop failing their classes and start acing them: metacognition. It discusses how learning strategies can dramatically improve performance. Metacognition gives us the ability to accurately judge how deeply we have learned something, whether we have only a superficial understanding or the ability to widely apply our knowledge. When students learn about metacognition, gain learning strategies, and become active learners, it empowers them tremendously because they begin to understand that thinking and learning are processes that they can control. Bloom’s Taxonomy is an extremely efficient and effective way to help us take meta-cognitive control of our own learning.
