International Association for Metacognition

Dr. Janet Metcalfe has made countless theoretical and applied contributions throughout her career to the field of Metacognition, delineating the critical role of metacognitive processes in learning, memory, problem-solving, and creativity. Just some of these contributions include the following. Her CHARM model predicted how cue familiarity would influence feeling of knowing judgments, and her empirical research confirmed it. Her research has identified the processes involved in judging what one knows now and what one might remember in the future. Her contributions include the importance of the hypercorrection effect, which demonstrates the role of confidence in learning from one's errors. Other contributions include establishing a two-stage model for the processes by which people judge their learning as well as explaining how such metacognitive monitoring influences self-regulation, such as prioritizing studying information in the region of proximal learning. She continually keeps application in mind, and she has conducted work on how metacognition can improve learning in schoolchildren in New York City schools. Janet's work has also revealed the origins and consequences of myriad other conscious, self-reflective experiences: curiosity, agency, flow, "aha!" moments of insight, and the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon. The breadth of the impact of her research is revealed in the way she has integrated social-emotional factors such as motivation and stress. Janet has also been a strong promoter of others’ research in metacognition, being a resource for students, post-docs, and colleagues.

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