“Metacognitive knowledge is a new category of knowledge in the revised Taxonomy.” According to Pintrich, strategic knowledge, self-knowledge and the knowledge of tasks and their contexts are the three important types of metacognitive knowledge.
Paul R. Pintrich (2002) The Role of Metacognitive Knowledge in Learning, Teaching, and
Assessing, Theory Into Practice, 41:4, 219-225, DOI: 10.1207/s15430421tip4104_3
The Role of Metacognitive Knowledge in Learning, Teaching, and Assessing
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