Abstract:

The purpose of the current study is to adapt and conduct reliability and validity analyses of the Metacognitive Awareness for Children Scale (A Form) Teacher Form developed by Sperling et al. (2002) and adapted to Turkish by Karakelle and Saraç (2007). The Metacognitive Awareness Scale A Form comprised of 12 items was prepared for 3th, 4th and 5th grade elementary school students and analyses of the data collected from the scale are made on the total score. The data of the study were collected through the evaluation of 121 elementary school students by six teachers from four different schools located in the city of İstanbul. In order to establish the content validity of the Metacognitive Awareness Scale, expert opinions were sought; Pearson correlation analysis was run for criterion validity and for construct validity, exploratory factor analysis was conducted. In order to test the reliability of the scale, total item correlation analysis, item discrimination analysis and test-retest analysis were performed. When all the findings of the study are evaluated, it can be argued that the Metacognitive Awareness Scale developed in the current study can be used as a reliable and valid tool to determine the metacognitive awareness level of the 3rd, 4th and 5th grade elementary school students.

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