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Volume 11 : 4 April 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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Effects of Some Students-Related Factors on Their Metacognitive Awareness

Fazalur Rahman, Ph.D., Nabi Bux Jumani, Ph.D.
Muhammad Ajmal, Ph.D., Saeed ul Hasan Chishti, Ph.D. and
Muhammad Javed Iqbal, Ph.D.

Abstract

The impact of some students' related factors on their metacognitive awareness was examined in the present study. 1800 students of grade X participated in the study. The sample was selected from 120 secondary schools. Metacognitive awareness was measured using metacognitive inventory.

Results indicated that metacognitive awareness was significantly correlated with internet use and library habits. It was found that children of highly educated parents were highly metacognitively aware than the children of less educated parents. Results further indicated that there was no significant difference in the metacognitive awareness of male and female students.

Key words: Metacognition; metacognitive awareness; cognitive processes

Introduction

An early definition of metacognition by Flavell (1976) has become regularly quoted in the literature. He referred metacognition as "One's knowledge concerning one's own cognitive processes and products or anything related to them...Metacognition refers, among other things, to the active monitoring and consequent regulation and orchestration of theses processes in relation to the cognitive objects or data on which they bear..." (p. 232). Later Flavell (1979) expanded the term "metacognition" and the concept to include the (i) metacognitive knowledge and (ii) regulation of cognition.

After Flavell, the concept of metacognition was expanded by Brown (1980). He furnished a broad definition. "Metacognition refers to one's knowledge concerning one own cognitive processes…

Metacognition refers, among other things, to the active monitoring and consequent regulation and orchestration of these processes in relation to the cognitive objects or data on which they bear, usually in the service of some concrete goal or objective"(p.32).

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Fazalur Rahman, Ph.D.
Department of Early Childhood Education & Elementary Teacher Education
Allama Iqbal Open University
44000 Islamabad
Pakistan
fazalaiou@yahoo.com

Nabi Bux Jumani, Ph.D.
Department of Education
International Islamic University
44000 Islamabad
Pakistan
nbjumani@yahoo.com

Muhammad Ajmal, Ph.D.
Department of Distance & Non-formal Education
Allama Iqbal Open University
44000 Islamabad
Pakistan
drajmal@aiou.edu.pk.com

Saeed ul Hasan Chishti, Ph.D.
Department of Education
International Islamic University
44000 Islamabad
Pakistan

 Muhammad Javed Iqbal, Ph.D.
Department of Distance & Non-formal Education
Allama Iqbal Open University
44000 Islamabad
Pakistan
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