Do educators need metacognitive skills in todays educational environment?

Popandopulo A. Fominykh N. Kudysheva A.
September 2021 Elsevier Ltd

Thinking Skills and Creativity
2021 #41

The goal of the research was to determine the need of a special training for development of metacognitive skills for teachers to develop their qualifications. The study offers such a program for testing. The novelty of the research lies in the integral study of the relationship between the introduction of the entire group of metacognitive skills with the improvement of pedagogical skills. The study was conducted on the basis of NJSC “Toraighyrov University” (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan). A representative sample included of 160 first year students (81 women and 79 men) in control and experimental groups equal. In the experimental group, the assessment of metacognitive skills according to the Assessing Metacognitive Awareness test is significantly higher than in the control one (r=0.281-0.369; for Procedural knowledge r=0.718 for control group; r=0.318-0.784 for experimental group). In the experimental group, there was a moderate and close to strong Pearsons correlation between exam scores and scores of metacognitive skills according to the Assessing Metacognitive Awareness test (from 0.318 to 0.784). The practical use of the results of this study will allow using special programs for improving the metacognitive skills of teachers, focusing on the most difficult to learn from them.

Metacognition , Metacognitive components , Metacognitive functions , Metacognitive involvement , Metacognitive skills , Metacognitive strategies

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Department of Psychology and Pedagogy, Toraighyrov University, Toraighyrov St., 30, 66, Pavlodar, 140000, Kazakhstan
Foreign Languages Department No 1, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Stremyanny Lane, 36, Moscow, 115054, Russian Federation
Department of Psychology and Pedagogy, Toraighyrov University, Estay St., 134/1, 61, Pavlodar, 140000, Kazakhstan

Department of Psychology and Pedagogy
Foreign Languages Department No 1
Department of Psychology and Pedagogy

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