Bøger af Katherine Pang

Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn: A Metacognitive Skills Program for Student Success is designed to help students develop resiliency, self-facilitation, initiation, and executive function skills that contribute to academic success. The text is built upon a strong model of executive function development within a metacognitive framework. It helps students develop behaviors critical to success, identify and leverage their unique strengths within their courses, and learn how to

Success through Statistics: Applying Metacognitive Skills to Social Science Research encourages students to recognize and cultivate self-efficacy, self-monitoring, resilience, and other metacognitive and executive function skills to overcome internal and external obstacles related to the study of statistics. The text covers the concepts introduced in a foundational statistics course while simultaneously sharpening students' metacognitive skills to inspire new belief in themselves and nurture academic success. The opening chapters develop the metacognitive framework for the statistical concepts presented throughout. Later chapters familiarize readers with statistical research methods and designs and types of measurement and data. Students form a strong understanding of basic statistical concepts and learn how to develop and test a hypothesis. Dedicated chapters discuss normal distributions and measures of variability, simple statistics with two variables, correlations and the chi-square test of independence, analysis of variance, and multiple correlation and linear regression. The text concludes with a chapter about nonparametric tests. Applied learning exercises throughout reinforce the material and immerse students in the metacognitive framework. Innovative and approachable, Success through Statistics is an ideal text for foundational courses in the discipline.Dr. Katherine Pang is a licensed psychologist in Dallas, Texas, and the founder of Lakewood Wellness Partners, as well as MetaCogSkills and Brain Skills for Kids. She is the founder of EdWay Online and has served in numerous faculty positions around the United States both in the classroom and online. Dr. Pang has a Ph.D. in educational psychology (cognitive), a master's in clinical psychopharmacology, and post-graduate certificates in neuropsychology, lifestyle health, and primary care psychology. In addition, she has two law degrees (a J.D. and an L.L.M. in taxation), an M.B.A., a master's in educational technology, a master's in psychology, a master's in divinity, and a master's in theology.

Designed to help students develop resiliency, self-facilitation, initiation, and executive function skills that contribute to academic success. The text helps students develop behaviours critical to success, identify and leverage their unique strengths within their courses, and learn how to effectively overcome internal and external obstacles.

Encourages students to recognise and cultivate self-efficacy, self-monitoring, resilience, and other metacognitive and executive function skills to overcome internal and external obstacles related to the study of statistics.

The purpose of this book is threefold. First to identify and understand the individual contribution of the components in the Pang (2008) model of metacognitive expertise that influences the acquisition of effective study skills; with effectiveness measured by academic success in cognate courses. Second, to present a well-defined and novel curriculum, where none currently exists, to teach study skills based on embedding the most relevant components of the model, as determined by factor analysis in the first goal, into the instructional design and pedagogy of the new curricula. Thirdly, for educators to implement the curriculum in study skill and academic success courses as well as use the metacognitive expertise model and the metacognitive expertise assessment tool (the ME-AT) in their cognate courses to promote and meaningful and effective learning strategies.