<p>A good overview on the topic is <a href="http://www.pearsonassessments.com/hai/images/tmrs/Metacognition_Literature_Review_Final.pdf">Metacognition: A Literature Review</a> (E. R. Lai), page 27 has a section assessing the measures of Metacognition.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Flavell (1979) describes 
  assessment tasks that asked children to study a set of items until they were sure they could 
  remember them completely. Children were then tested on their ability to recall all the items. </p>
  
  <p>Another common task was to read a set of written instructions and indicate any omissions, 
  mistakes, or areas of ambiguity. Schneider (2008) observes that the most studied type of 
  procedural metamemory is self-monitoring. Assessments designed to capture this ability include 
  ease of learning judgments, judgments of learning, and feelings of knowing. For example, ease 
  of learning judgments typically ask students to study a set of test materials for a short amount of 
  time and then assess their abilities to remember the material. After the students are tested on the 
  material, their performances are compared to their initial predictions.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Generally assessments focus on one specific area of Metacognition like Metamemory. </p>

<p>See also <a href="http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&amp;_&amp;ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED383725&amp;ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&amp;accno=ED383725">Development and Validation of an Objective Measure of Metacognition</a> that assess four studies evaluating metacognitive abilities. </p>

<p>Searching around on <a href="http://scholar.google.com/">Google Scholar</a> finds a great deal of studies using and proposing various measures for Metacognition. There's certainly no "standard" like an IQ test, as Metacoginiton: A Literature Review notes, part of the challenge in studying and teaching Metacognitive abilities is due to the lack of focus on them in traditional school curriculum.</p>

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<p>Does anyone know of any research in measuring <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition" rel="nofollow">metacognitive abilities</a> (i.e. metacomprehension, metamemory, meta-emotions(?), etc) in people? In other words, I'm wondering if the same way we have IQ tests (which I know is a whole other topic of debate), if there would be a way to measure "meta-IQ"? </p>

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What [initial research](http://meta.cogsci.stackexchange.com/q/66/29) have you done on this? What would be "high metacognition" what would be low? Usually if you can't come up with tags for your questions then it is a sign that you haven't framed it well enough by existing knowledge to have a well answerable question.
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I think that the definitions of high metacognition vs low metacognition are pretty intuitive. I have done little initial research. (I'm not a cog sci researcher, just a curious individual). And the tags are there: "metacognition" and "measurement"...
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# Measuring meta-intelligence

(Asked by: username_0 on 2012-08-24)

Does anyone know of any research in measuring [metacognitive abilities](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition) (i.e. metacomprehension, metamemory, meta-emotions(?), etc) in people? In other words, I'm wondering if the same way we have IQ tests (which I know is a whole other topic of debate), if there would be a way to measure "meta-IQ"?

**Tags:** measurement, metacognition

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: What [initial research](http://meta.cogsci.stackexchange.com/q/66/29) have you done on this? What would be "high metacognition" what would be low? Usually if you can't come up with tags for your questions then it is a sign that you haven't framed it well enough by existing knowledge to have a well answerable question.  
> **username_0**: I think that the definitions of high metacognition vs low metacognition are pretty intuitive. I have done little initial research. (I'm not a cog sci researcher, just a curious individual). And the tags are there: "metacognition" and "measurement"...  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2012-08-27. Score: 5 | Accepted answer

A good overview on the topic is [Metacognition: A Literature Review](http://www.pearsonassessments.com/hai/images/tmrs/Metacognition_Literature_Review_Final.pdf) (E. R. Lai), page 27 has a section assessing the measures of Metacognition.

> Flavell (1979) describes
> assessment tasks that asked children to study a set of items until they were sure they could
> remember them completely. Children were then tested on their ability to recall all the items.
>
> Another common task was to read a set of written instructions and indicate any omissions,
> mistakes, or areas of ambiguity. Schneider (2008) observes that the most studied type of
> procedural metamemory is self-monitoring. Assessments designed to capture this ability include
> ease of learning judgments, judgments of learning, and feelings of knowing. For example, ease
> of learning judgments typically ask students to study a set of test materials for a short amount of
> time and then assess their abilities to remember the material. After the students are tested on the
> material, their performances are compared to their initial predictions.

Generally assessments focus on one specific area of Metacognition like Metamemory.

See also [Development and Validation of an Objective Measure of Metacognition](http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED383725&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED383725) that assess four studies evaluating metacognitive abilities.

Searching around on [Google Scholar](http://scholar.google.com/) finds a great deal of studies using and proposing various measures for Metacognition. There's certainly no "standard" like an IQ test, as Metacoginiton: A Literature Review notes, part of the challenge in studying and teaching Metacognitive abilities is due to the lack of focus on them in traditional school curriculum.


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