Colleagues:

I'd like to make you aware of a new symposium on metacognition in
chemistry education (description below) that will be held at this
summer's Biennial Conference on Chemical Education.

If you plan on a presentation pertaining to metacognition, whether
it's more research-oriented or practice-oriented, please consider
submitting to this symposium and joining in the exchange of ideas!

The BCCE abstract submission deadline is February 28; the link to
submit for this particular symposium is
http://bcce-submissions.com/addPap.php?id=58

Thank you!

-- Seth

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Metacognition in Chemistry Education

Metacognition -- sometimes described as "thinking about one's own
thinking" -- broadly encompasses various facets of metacognitive
monitoring (knowledge of what one knows) and metacognitive control
(regulation of one's own thinking processes), and has been linked to
topics ranging from studying choices to problem-solving strategies to
conceptual change. In this symposium, we hope to bring together
discussions and research on the role of metacognition within teaching
and learning chemistry that have previously appeared scattered among
disparate symposia. To that end, this symposium invites submissions on
metacognition in chemistry education, including, but not limited to:
assessing student metacognition in various contexts and by various
methods, relationships between metacognition and performance,
interactions between metacognition and other student characteristics,
and interventions or curricula designed to foster improved student
metacognition in chemistry.

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   Seth Anthony -- [log in to unmask]
   Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Dept. of Natural Sciences
   Oregon Institute of Technology; Klamath Falls, OR
   Office: DOW 201; Phone: 541-851-5235