Written by Elizabeth Yost Hammer, Garth Neufeld, Jeanne Turner
Purpose
The purpose of this learning activity is to give your students an opportunity to develop their metacognitive skills (i.e., their ability to plan, monitor and evaluate their learning processes). In order for this activity to have the most impact, you should explicitly discuss the role of metacognition in this activity. You are encouraged to adapt the activity to cover other psychological content.
Exam Wrappers are tools for students to examine their test readiness, identify specific strategies to improve readiness and examine how effective those strategies are so adaptations can be made for future exams.
Preparation/study techniques can be adapted by instructors. Those listed here are simply suggestions.
National Standards for High School Psychology
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Domain: Applicable to all domains.
Time Required
30 minutes when initially introducing the process to students. Twenty minutes for subsequent exams.
Task
To reflect on exam preparation and outcome. Preparation/Study techniques can be adapted by instructors. Those listed here are simply suggestions.
Assessment
Student completion of metacognitive reflection handout.
Attachment
Exam Wrapperopens in new window (PDF, 146KB)
Reference
Adapted from Lovett, M. C. (2013). Make exams worth more than the grade: Using exam wrappers to promote metacognition. In M. Kaplan, N. Silver, D. LaVague-Manty, & D. Meizlish (Eds.), Using reflection and metacognition to improve student learning: Across the disciplines, across the academy (pp. 18-52). Sterling, VA: Stylus.
This resource was developed by a Working Group on Skills that Promote Well-Being and Flourishing from the APA Summit on High School Psychology Education (July 2017).