Mr. Cooper, an 8th grade social studies teacher, attempts to bring both sides of an argument to his students on any controversial material he teaches. When he is teaching about a current debate, he asks students to write a journal response discussing their beliefs on the topic and where their beliefs come from. This sort of written response would utilize which of the following cognitive processes?
Explanation
Answer: B - Metacognitive thinking. Asking students to analyze, reflect and consider the roots of a belief is a metacognitive form of thinking. Metacognition employs many of the educational objectives used in Bloom’s Taxonomy - knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
