Metacognitive Ability among Student Teachers

M Balasubramaniam; S Rajaguru

M Balasubramaniam Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
S Rajaguru Principal, Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Education, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Keywords: metacognitive ability, B.Ed. colleges, strategies, learning task, problem solving, learning goal

Abstract

The core objective of the present study is to outline the metacognitive ability of student teachers of Coimbatore and Tirupur districts of Tamilnadu. It is based on data collected from 745 student teachers studying B.Edfrom colleges of education. Simple random sampling technique has been used to collect the sample. The Metacognitive abilityscale has been used as tool to collect the data. Resultsindicate that the student teachers possess moderate metacognitive ability. It has also been found that there exists do not significantly differ in metacognitive ability with respect to sub variables such asGender, Locality, Family type, Medium of education, Study preference.