Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Publication Date
2019
Keywords
metacognitive awareness, case-based learning, perspective-taking, cognitive processing
Abstract
This case study addressed the authors’ efforts to design an 8-week small-group independent study (IS) experience that facilitated undergraduate speech-language pathology students’ (n=19) higher-level thinking and overall metacognitive awareness. We hoped to encourage both in order to improve students’ overall cognitive growth while enhancing their reflection about and knowledge of professional perspectives regarding the assessment and treatment of laryngeal cancer. To take on this challenge, we combined case-based learning (CBL) and perspective-taking (PT) pedagogies across the IS. Students completed the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI) pre- and post-IS, and written reflections after each of eight weekly discussion meetings. The MAI was quantitatively analyzed, while reflections were qualitatively coded using Bloom’s taxonomy. Findings indicated that metacognitive awareness significantly improved and that higher-level cognitive processing was increasingly evidenced across students’ IS experience. Results indicate the potential to maximize metacognition and cognitive processing by combining CBL and PT by the methods used here. Applications of combined CBL and PT to other disciplines and teaching and learning situations will be discussed along with the implications of our findings.
DOI
10.14434/josotl.v19i2.24006
Recommended Citation
Vinney, Lisa; Friberg, Jennifer C.; and Smyers, Mary, "Case-based Perspective-Taking as a Mechanism to Improve Metacognition and Higher-Level Thinking in Undergraduate Speech-Language Pathology Students" (2019). Faculty Publications – Communication Sciences and Disorders. 3.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/fpcsd/3
Comments
First published in Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vol. 19, No. 3, June 2019, pp.91-104. doi: 10.14434/josotl.v19i2.24006.
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