When a reasoning attempt fails, most people ask 'what was wrong with the answer?' The superior question is 'which part of my thinking process failed?' Flavell's taxonomy — monitoring, control, evaluation, planning — gives you the vocabulary.
Metacognitive Scan challenges show you a reasoning sample (yours or someone else's) and ask which type of meta-error is operative. Did you notice your confidence was high, but fail to downgrade when new information arrived? That's a monitoring failure. Did you plan to check your work but skip the check? That's a control failure. Different diagnoses lead to different fixes.
This mode is the difference between 'I got it wrong' and 'I got it wrong for this specific, fixable reason.' Over time, the scan runs automatically — in your own head, during real decisions.
This trains
Meta-error classification
Mapping reasoning failures to Flavell's four categories — monitoring, control, evaluation, planning — in real time.
How a session feels
4 steps, 3–5 minutes. Repeat until the feedback starts shaping your instincts.
- 1
Read the reasoning sample
A 3–4 sentence thinking-out-loud extract — your own or a synthetic one.
- 2
Pick the meta-error type
Monitoring / Control / Evaluation / Planning. Only one fits best.
- 3
Explain briefly (optional)
Free-text rationale scored by the AI coach — your reasoning matters as much as the label.
- 4
See the fix
Each meta-error has a canonical fix. Seeing it attached to the diagnosis is what makes the lesson transfer.
Who it's for
- Anyone who has taken a Bias Hunter streak and wants the next layer
- Coaches, teachers, and managers giving feedback on others' reasoning
- Researchers, analysts, and writers whose output depends on auditing their own process
Try a challenge — no sign-up
The demo pulls from the public challenge bank. Your confidence rating and result are the same mechanics you'll see in the real mode.
Start with Metacognitive Scan
Your first session generates a score baseline in under 10 minutes.