Avgustiuk M. The illusion of knowing in metacognitiv monitoring of the educational activity of university students

The study analyzes the concept, types, means of metacognitive monitoring in the structure of metacognition; allocates and theoretically analyses factors of reliability of monitoring training activities, such as personal, cognitive and metacognitive characteristics, individual differences and characteristics of reliability with the productivity of educational activity; describes the concept of the illusion of knowing, highlights its place in metacognitive monitoring of the educational activity; divides the terms "the illusion of knowing" and "illusory knowledge". There are empirically established connections between the features of the singled out personal, cognitive and metacognitive characteristics of the students. We also found out the correlation between the indicators of the illusion of knowing and metacognitive activity, metacognitive awareness and self-confidence. It is established that the illusion of knowing as overconfidence occurs in all types of metacognitive judgments, but is more evident in prospective judgments depending on the type of information, its amount and style, task type, etc.According to the received results of the theoretical and experimental research a training program of optimization of metacognitive monitoring of the educational activity of university students was developed.On the basis of the summarized results of theoretical and experimental research the basic theoretical concepts of psychological and pedagogical conditions of metacognitive monitoring optimization of the education activity of university students are described.