Here is a very handy guide, based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, for helping students think about their coursework: https://www.teachthought.com/learning/metacognitive-prompts-to-help-students-reflect-on-their-learning/
In my planned weekly feedback (copy and paste) to students on their 10 short written reflections (low-risk), I include a prompt based on questions developed by The Foundation for Critical Thinking, and one based on these metacognitive prompts shared through the link above.
My intent is twofold:
1) To get students to look again at their work and foster further thought about what they have written on the specific course material for a given week;
2) To encourage students to think about their approach to coursework and concrete steps they can take to improve their learning.
We’ll see how well this works. “Kryss fingrane!” (cross your fingers) as they say in Norway.