What is the Relationship Between Cognition and Metacognition?
The question sometimes raised by researchers, even of students studying at higher levels of education, is whether students use metacognition. The data in this study is absolutely affirmative. Students reported frequent use of metacognition on every task at every school and in every class. The question of how students use their problem solving time in regards to cognition and metacognition is interesting. Unfortunately the allocation of time to each process was not tracked in this study. A different method would be required for such research. Students sometimes seemed to ‘chunk’ their cognitive actions. For example, they may have used one cognitive statement to represented a number of complex cognitive acts. But in a similar way, the reported use of metacognition could also represent a number of metacognitive actions. The expected sequence on any task would include frequent use of cognition. It could be assumed that cognition would be used after every metacognitive action. But the data
