Self-Monitoring & Metacognition

Checking one's own performance, noticing errors, and adjusting strategies.

Examples & Achievements

• Notices when a puzzle piece does not fit and tries a different one
• Checks own name writing and corrects a backward letter
• Says "that didn't work, let me try another way"
• Reflects on what they did during an activity ("I built a tall tower then it fell")

How to Measure

• Observation of error-correction behavior during puzzles or building tasks
• Can describe what they did and what happened (Plan-Do-Review)
• Detects and corrects at least one error in own drawing or writing (observed)