METACOGNITION AWARENESS LEVELS OF TURKISH TEACHER CANDIDATES

Halim Abdulhak ULAS ¹ , Emine KOLAÇ ¹ , Oğuzhan Sevim ¹

The objective of this study is to determine metacognition awareness levels of Turkish teacher candidates. The investigation has the quality of survey model. Metacognition Awareness Inventory (MAI) developed by Shraw and Dennison (1994) has been used as the survey tool. For each factor of MAI, which is composed of 8 factors and 52 articles, internal consistency reliability factor was determined as .95. At the end of the study, the beliefs of prospective teachers in their cognitive objectives and personal capabilities were on an adequate level. The individual’s level for using the knowledge about how the strategies will be used to solve the problems, and for using and arranging knowledge and skills was high. When and why the individual will use explanatory and procedural knowledge, the selection of appropriate learning strategies by the individual and the individual’s level for setting his cognitive resources to work for effective performance were determined. It has been concluded that the individual has adequate knowledge on analyzing his performance, making estimations about his performance in the future, evaluating effectiveness of his learning strategies and finding out his performance faults. It was determined that the individual’s skill levels such as evaluating his learning outputs and effectiveness, organizing, detailing and summarizing to more effectively process the knowledge in his performance and understanding were high.

Keywords
Metacognition, Metacognition awareness, Turkish language, Turkish education, Prospective teachers,