Metacognition is important for monitoring and regulating cognitive processes, decision-making, problem-solving, and learning. Despite widespread interest in metacognition, measuring metacognition in children poses a significant challenge. Some qualitative and observational metrics exist but are restricted by scalability, range of metacognitive components measured, and use of different metrics compared with tasks for adults. We developed the Zoo Task-a novel, scalable, a paper-based task that measures multiple aspects of metacognition that is less conflated by other variables like verbal ability and does not require video-recording children. Children (N = 204, ages: 7-12 years, mostly from African American backgrounds) attending schools in high-poverty urban areas contributed to its development. In addition, they completed a standard metacognition of memory task similar to those already used with children and adults. The results indicate that the novel task trials are reliable and have good criterion validity. The Zoo Task could bridge the current gap between existing metrics of metacognition for children and adults. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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动物园任务：一项新颖的元认知问题解决任务，以来自高贫困社区学校的非裔美国儿童为样本开发。

元认知对于监测和调节认知过程、决策、解决问题和学习非常重要。尽管人们对元认知有广泛的兴趣，但测量儿童的元认知仍是一项重大挑战。存在一些定性和观察性指标，但受到可扩展性、测量的元认知成分范围以及与成人任务相比使用不同指标的限制。我们开发了 Zoo Task——一种新颖的、可扩展的、基于纸张的任务，它测量元认知的多个方面，较少与语言能力等其他变量混淆，并且不需要儿童录制视频。在高度贫困的城市地区上学的儿童（N = 204，年龄：7-12 岁，主要来自非裔美国人背景）为其发展做出了贡献。此外，他们完成了一项标准的记忆元认知任务，类似于儿童和成人已经使用过的那些任务。结果表明，新任务试验是可靠的，并具有良好的标准效度。Zoo Task 可以弥合现有儿童和成人元认知指标之间的差距。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2021 APA，保留所有权利）。