**3. Definitions of metacognition**

*"The knowledge and control that children have over their own thinking and learning activities" [24].*

*"The monitoring and control of thoughts" [25].*

*"Awareness and management of one's own thought" [26].*

*"A higher-order agent that oversees and governs the cognitive system while also being a part of it" [27].*

He defined metacognition as a list of self-instructions for task control and execution, with cognition serving as a vehicle for self-instructions. Furthermore, for a better grasp of the idea of metacognition, regard it as two-way mental processing [28]. Metacognitive Model of Consciousness and Cognition. He distinguished between "object-level" (cognitions about external objects) and "meta-level" (cognitions about external objects) processes and his metacognitive model explained that "any lower-level cognition can itself be the subject of a higher-level cognition."
