Overview of the study -- Information research and the search process -- Research on metacognition -- Problem solving and metacognition -- Information problem solving and metacognitive skills -- Education graduate students' information-seeking skills -- Education students' information seeking to support problem solving -- Metacognitive skills and online search behavior -- Promoting metacognition -- The metacognitive scaffold: the idea tactics tutorial -- Methodology: the think-aloud problem-solving activity and post-activity interview -- Methodology: the data analysis -- The indexes -- Overall effect of tutorial on search outcomes -- The tutorial and the idea generation and mental pattern breaking -- The impact of the tutorial on participants' metacognitive behaviors in problem solving -- Metacognition and information literacy -- Utilizing the tutorial -- Conclusion and recommendations for future studies.
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