As you have rightly observed in your interesting question, in addition to cognitive competencies such as reading or mathematical literacy, the learner's ability to regulate his/her own learning processes has a great bearing on successful learning.As such, assessing meta-cognition skills at school plays a pivotal role and involves two different but complementary components ; namely, the knowledge component and the regulation component. For assessing such skills for the specified targeted groups, the attached links can hopefully provide you with the most effective methods of assessment.