Abstract
Metacognitive skills play a major role in Mathematical problem solving. Metacognitive skills are required for monitoring and regulating the cognitive process of Mathematical problem solving. Different countries have declared that improving metacognitive skills is an essential component in Mathematics Education. Hence, having an instrument to effectively and efficiently measure metacognitive skills is important for both researchers and teachers. Think-aloud protocol is an endorsed method for assessing metacognitive skills in Mathematics. There, students verbalize their thoughts while working on the problem. However, this method has limited usability in large classroom settings due to the time consumed. Self-report questionnaires, on the other hand is an efficient metacognitive skill measurement instrument since it has ease of administration, suitable for larger classes and no need of special training on conducting. Though task general self-report questionnaires show low correlation with think-aloud which is an effective metacognition measurement tool, task specific questionnaires which were designed in line with think aloud show a significant correlation. To this date, there is no self-report questionnaire designed based on think-aloud for measuring metacognition in Mathematical problem solving. This study focuses on developing a task specific Likert type questionnaire for measuring metacognitive skills in Mathematical problem solving based on think aloud. The scale shows a high content validity (S-CVI/Ave=0.9), confirms the construct validity including both convergent and discriminant and higher internal consistency (ordinal alpha=0.89) assuring it as a successful measure for measuring metacognitive skills in Mathematical problem solving.
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Uthpala Athukorala, Institute of Technology University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Dileepa Fernando, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Chanakya Wijeratne, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Conference: ACE2023
Stream: Mind
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Athukorala U., Fernando D., & Wijeratne C. (2024) Thinking Aloud Protocol Based Self-Report Questionnaire to Measure Metacognitive Skills in Mathematical Problem Solving ISSN: 2186-5892 The Asian Conference on Education 2023: Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-5892.2024.87
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-5892.2024.87
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