PROMOTING METACOGNITIVE AWARENESS AMONG HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS

Metacognition is essential to successful learning because it enables individuals to better manage their cognitive skills and to determine weaknesses that can be corrected by constructing new cognitive skills. Promoting metacognition begins with building awareness among learners that metacognition exits, differs from cognition and increases academic success. Hence the present study was undertaken by the investigator to explore the metacognitive awareness among Higher Secondary Students. A sample of 445 students (209 Boys and 236 Girls) of XI Standard was selected by using simple random sampling technique for the investigation. The standardized tool ‘Metacognitive Awareness Inventory’ (MAI) developed by Schraw and Dennison (1994) has been used as a measure of metacognitive awareness of students. The survey method was used to collect the data from three types of managements such as Government, Govt. Aided and Private Higher Secondary Schools in Chennai City. Mean, Standard Deviation,‘t’ test and Analysis of Variance have been employed to analyze the data. The findings of the study reveals that the Metacognitive Awareness level among Higher Secondary Students were found to be high and there was significant difference in the Metacognitive Awareness based on their Gender and Type of School Management. Further it was found that there was no significant difference in the Metacognitive Awareness based on their Residential Locality and Family Income