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"Note that learning about metacognition can lead to actually performing metacognition more effectively. "While there are several approaches to metacognitive instruction," writes Jennifer Livingston, professor of educational psychology at State University of New York, Buffalo, "the most effective involve providing the learner with both knowledge of cognitive processes and strategies (to be used as metacognitive knowledge), and experience or practice in using both cognitive and metacognitive strategies and evaluating the outcomes of their efforts (develops metacognitive regulation). Simply providing knowledge without experience or vice versa does not seem to be sufficient for the development of metacognitive control."44"

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