Reading: Metacognition is relevant to reading because it is involved in understanding and monitoring reading purposes and strategies.

Learning:learners are more likely to monitor their activities on tasks of intermediate difficulty as opposed to easy tasks.

Behavior: Understanding which skills and strategies help us learn and remember information is necessary but not sufficient.

Task Variables. Knowing the relative difficulty of different forms of learning

Learner Variables: Older children understand their own memory abilities and limitations better than younger children do

Conditional knowledge helps students select and employ declarative and procedural knowledge to fit task goals

one must know how and when to use these skills and strategies to ensure the task is completed successfully.

one must understand what skills, strategies, and resources a task requires

Conditional: it means when and why to apply the knowledge.

Procedural : it means how to do something.

Declarative: it means what I know.

Strategy Variables. metacognition depends on the strategies learners employ

Metacognition comprises two related sets of skills

Types of knowledge

Metacognition refers to higher- order cognition.