Exam time is an ideal time to bring metacognitive strategies into the learning process. Encourage students to use the exam session to try new/better study methods, especially if it is a mid-year exam that does not count as much as the final exam.
After marking a test or exam, it is good to ask some reflective questions, and not simply take the marks as an objective measure of the students’ abilities. Data analysis is useful but it needs to lead to reflection.
John Hattie has been analysing education research for several years now by doing a meta-study. He has identified various factors which influence learning and the size of their effect. He has recently identified a new effect at the top of the list: Collective Teacher Efficacy.