1st Edition

Cognition, Metacognition and Academic Performance An East Asian Perspective

Edited By Michael Yip Copyright 2018
    160 Pages
    by Routledge

    170 Pages
    by Routledge

    Learning strategies and academic performance have been extensively investigated but relatively few studies were conducted in East Asia. This volume presents a reflection on the current status of metacognition and academic performance in the East Asian region. It serves to provide a more complete picture of the global study of how students‘ learning and studying strategies affect their acdemic performance. This book will be of interest to researchers and educators in the area of education, education psychology, cross-cultural studies, education policy, curriculum and instruction and regional studies.

    Notes on contributors
    Preface 

    Chapter 1: Cognition, metacognition and academic performance: What are the differences between east asian and western? (Michael C. W. Yip)

    Part I – Cognition, metacognition and academic performance in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
    Chapter 2: Relations of metacognitive and motivational strategies to test and homework performance in chinese students (Eunsook Hong, Yun Peng, Lonnie Rowell and Harold F. O’Neil, Jr.)
    Chapter 3: English language learners in chinese high schools: Self-efficacy profiles (Chuang Wang and Do-Hong Kim)
    Chapter 4: Academic achievement of Hong Kong chinese students: Motivational perspective (Rebecca Wing-yi Cheng and Wing-kai Fung)
    Chapter 5: Development of metacognition and its relationship to academic performance and learning experience in east asian students studying in Hong Kong (Kevin Downing and Hiu Tin Leung)
    Chapter 6: Cognition strategies, metacognition strategies and academic performance in Taiwan (Huey-Min Wu)

    Part II – Cognition, metacognition and academic performance in Japan, Singapore and South Korea
    Chapter 7: Situating metacognition in context: importance of others and affect in metacognitive interventions (Osamu Takeuchi and Maiko Ikeda)
    Chapter 8: Strategies for achieving deep understanding and improving learning skills: New approaches to instruction and lesson study in japanese schools (Yuri Uesaka, Tatsushi Fukaya and Shin’ichi Ichikawa)
    Chapter 9: Academic help seeking, implicit beliefs of ability and achievement of Singapore students (Wenshu Luo)
    Chapter 10: Cultural reading on korean students’ learning strategies (Jongho Shin, Myoung-Seop Kim and Yoonji Kim)

    Index

    Biography

    Michael C. W. Yip is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Education University of Hong Kong. His research interests include Cognitive Sciences, Educational Psychology and Experimental Psycholinguistics.