metaknowledge

9.9

Awareness of what you have learned and what you still need to learn

noun
/ˌmɛtəˈnɔlɪdʒ/

Specialized

: metaconocimiento

Having metaknowledge allows individuals to assess their own understanding and identify areas for improvement.

Examples

In both cases, some sort of metaknowledge for reasoning would be required in order to select the specific solving technique.

Academic text (2017)
This requires some sort of metaknowledge for reasoning in order to select the specific solving technique.

Academic text (2017)
Evans JA, Foster JG 2011. Metaknowledge. Science 331: 721-725.

Academic text (2013)
The concept of metaknowledge helps students understand how they learn and what strategies work best for them.
Teachers often aim to cultivate metaknowledge in their students so they can reflect on their learning processes.

How Aware

metaknowledge

Specialized

9.9

insight

464 4.9

understanding

809 1.1

awareness

380 3.2

ignorance

275 3.9

Surface Forms

metaknowledge singular

metaknowledges plural

Morphology

metaknowledge = knowledge (semi-transparent) = meta + knowledge

The meaning is largely compositional as 'meta-' adds the idea of self-reference or aboutness to 'knowledge', though the prefix is somewhat technical.

Etymology

Metaknowledge comes from the part meta- meaning 'about' or 'beyond' and the word knowledge meaning what you know. A helpful way to remember it is to think of meta- like in metadata — data 'about' data — so metaknowledge is knowledge 'about' your own knowledge or about knowledge itself.