Table 1 Overview of popular operationalisations of metacognition.

From: Metacognition: ideas and insights from neuro- and educational sciences

 

Online

Offline

Protocol

Discipline

CN

ES

Meta-knowledge

 

Metacognitive judgements

JOL

X

X

FOK

X

X

2-AFC + confidence

X

 
 

Self-evaluation

MAI

 

X

Interviews

 

X

Awareness of learning

Learning journals

 

X

Self-monitoring

Thinking-aloud

 

X

Meta-control

 

Strategy selection

MAI

 

X

MSLQ

 

X

LASSI

 

X

Learning journals

 

X

Use of strategies

Interviews

 

X

Thinking-aloud

 

X

Conflict monitoring

 

Motion discrimination + additional evidence

X

 
 

Flanker task

X

X

 

Stroop task

X

X

Effort regulation

 

2-AFC + Cognitive offloading

X

 
 

Demand-selection task

X

 
 

BRIEF

 

X

Inhibition

 

BRIEF

 

X

 

Flanker task

X

X

Shifting

 

Stroop task

X

X

Emotional control

 

BRIEF

 

X

 

Planning

MAI

 

X

MSLQ

 

X

LASSI

 

X

BRIEF

 

X

 

Cognitive offloading

Go/no-go + setting reminders

X

 

Go/no-go + desire for reminder

X

 
  1. CN cognitive neuroscience, ES educational sciences.