SMARTS Programme and Pupils’ Metacognitive Abilities - A Pilot Study

• Authors: Iveta Kovalčíková , Ivana Martinková

Abstracts

EN

The presented paper focuses on the impact of intervention with the application of the SMARTS program on students’ metacognitive abilities. The metacognitive program SMARTS, which is a product of RILD1 (Research Institute for Learning and Development, Lexington, Massachusetts, the author Lynn Meltzer), was translated, adapted, and pilot-tested in the Slovak educational context conditions. In the form of qualitative intervention case studies, the paper analyses (1) the diagnostic potential of SMARTS revealing deficits in students’ metacognitive abilities (organisationorganization and prioritisationprioritization), (2) an intervention to improve a student’s specific metacognitive ability, (3) outcome (stagnation/progress/regression) of the intervention. The results obtained by direct participatory observation applied in the intervention point to a possible positive impact of the SMARTS program on the observed metacognitive abilities of students.

Keywords

EN

metacognitive skills; metacognitive intervention; metacognitive program SMARTS; BRIEF; D-KEFS; case study

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 67
• Pages: 17-29

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Iveta Kovalčíková

• University of Prešov

• https://orcid.org/0000000230779743

author

Ivana Martinková

• University of Prešov

• https://orcid.org/0000000343522864

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.22.67.1.01

Biblioteka Nauki

2034185