About the Measure
Domains | Meta-cognition |
Key stages | Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 |
Subscales | Organizing; Accommodating; Evaluating; Strategizing; Recapitulating |
Description | A group-administered questionnaire designed to assess students' awareness and use of higher-order cognitive processes during problem solving. |
Example | Not reported |
Link | store.ets.org/store/ets/en_US/pd/ThemeID.12805600/productID.39392100 |
Psychometry | |
Implementation |
Implementation details
No. of items | 37 |
Format | Likert |
Respondent | Self |
Scoring | Standardised |
Time | 0 |
Age | 13-18 |
Cost single purchase | $25.00 |
Cost per child | - |
Psychometric details
UK norms | No |
Cronbach's α | .75 |
Test retest | Not reported |
Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
EFA | PCA with varimax |
CFA | Not reported |
Criterion validity | Not reported |
Construct validity | PCA with varimax rotation identified six orthogonal factors |
Concurrent validity | The six factors correctly classified students 53% of the time; most accurately predicted group membership among low achieving students (61.3%) and least accurately predicted group members among average students (44.8%). r=.18-.38 |
Predictive validity | Not reported |
Responsiveness | Not reported |
Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
References | Armour-Thomas, E., & Haynes, N. M. (1988). Assessment of metacognition in problem solving. Journal of Instructional Psychology, 15, 87-93. |