Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Teachers need to explicitly teach students metacognitive skills along with content instruction.
2. Students who believe that information to be learned is easy are less likely to use advanced skills and strategies such as planning, monitoring, and evaluating.
3. Adolescent egocentrism arises when teenagers choose to disregard the thoughts of others and instead focus selfishly on only one’s own needs.
4. PQ4R improves reading comprehension skills by teaching metacognitive strategies.
5. Studies of study-time allocation, particularly the region of proximal learning model, suggest that students achieve best by focusing the majority of study time on the most difficult items.
6. Overestimation and underestimation are common characteristics of what 5 year olds understand about the amount of thinking others are capable of.


1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. False
6. True

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