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. |