23.4.3.3. Metacognitive Skills. "Metacognitive skills refer to the steps that people take to regulate and modify the progress of their cognitive activity: to learn such skills is to acquire procedures which regulate cognitive processes" (Von Wright, 1992, p. 64). Metacognitive skills include taking conscious control of learning, planning and selecting strategies, monitoring the progress of learning, correcting errors, analyzing the effectiveness of learning strategies, and changing learning behaviors and strategies when necessary (Ridley, Schutz, Glanz & Weinstein, 1992). These abilities interact with developmental maturation and domain expertise. Immature learners can't to do this; they may have learned a single strategy, such as memorization, and then attempt to apply that to all situations.