Metacognition

Evidence-based metacognition practices.

8 concepts in this area — each broken into concrete practices with the real mechanism, an honest read on the evidence, and how to practice it with IX Coach.

• Feeling of Knowing: Why Your Confidence Misleads You — What is the feeling of knowing and why does it make people overestimate what they remember?
• Illusion of Explanatory Depth: You Know Less Than You Think — What is the illusion of explanatory depth and how do you overcome it?
• Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned — What are judgments of learning and how do they cause people to study ineffectively?
• Plan–Do–Study–Act: Deming’s Loop for Personal Improvement — How do you use the PDSA cycle to improve skills and habits systematically?
• Productive Failure: How Struggling First Makes Instruction More Effective — What is productive failure and how does it improve learning outcomes?
• Self-Regulated Learning: Taking Control of How You Learn — How does self-regulated learning improve academic and skill performance?
• Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice — How does structured reflection accelerate learning from experience?
• The Fluency Illusion: Why Easy Reading Fools You Into Thinking You’ve Learned — What is the fluency illusion and how does it make people think they’ve learned when they haven’t?