This is The USAF Test and Measurement Handbook. The original document was written by Dwight C. Hageman, Ed.D. Section D pages 21 and 22 contain the definition for Metacognition. This is the basis for SARM Interactive Aviation Checklists.
Examples of Metacognitive Skills
Documented In this Major DOD ISD/SAT Manual
Situation Awareness: Learning and demonstrating mental preparedness to encode operational cues as indicators of normal, abnormal, and emergency conditions associated with the performance of an operational procedure.
Resource Management: Learning and demonstrating the mental preparedness to make decisions by generating the results expected upon completion of prioritized strategies or tactics in response to normal, abnormal, and emergency cues associated with the performance of an operational procedure, and the ability to generate new prioritized strategies and tactics in response to abnormal or emergency cues.
Situation Awareness: Learning and demonstrating the ability to judge the worth or quality of normal, abnormal, and emergency condition cues associated with the performance of an operational procedure.