"A Model to Build, Assess, and Reflect on Students' Metacognition through the Classroom Debate of Controversial Environmental Issues"

Debates have been used as a tool to promote active learning in the classroom.Role-play debates have been used to bring more realism to the issue being debated.In a junior-level environmental science course, role-play debates were utilized to present and discuss controversial environmental issues in realistic scenarios that occur throughout the United States.Using these debates as a platform, a model to build, assess, and reflect on students' metacognition was developed and implemented.This model provides a method to assess a student's metacognitive ability and allow for reflection and improvement in this area.