Research Article | Open Access
The Level of Metacognitive Thinking Skills among Bachelor's Students in Psychology, Educational Sciences, and Speech Therapy Department at Jijel University
BILAL MEDJIDER, SELMA ZAGH
Pages: 135-150
Abstract
The study aimed to reveal the level of metacognitive thinking skills as a whole, and the level of its three dimensions (planning, control and monitoring, evaluation) among bachelor's students in Psychology Department, Education Sciences, and Speech Therapy at Jijel University, and to know the differences in the level of metacognitive thinking skills according to the variable of the academic level, and the variable of the academic specialization. The descriptive approach was used, and the metacognitive thinking skills scale was adopted for researchers (Shaheen and Ryan, 2011), where it was distributed to a sample of (94) bachelor's students in the Department of Psychology, Education Sciences and Speech Therapy at Jijel University. The results of the study showed that: the level of metacognitive thinking skills as a whole, and the level of sub-skills (planning, control and monitoring) among bachelor's students in the Department of Psychology, Education and Speech Therapy Sciences at Jijel University is high, while the evaluation skill came at an intermediate level. There are no statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.05) between the average scores of the responses of bachelor's students in the Department of Psychology, Educational Sciences and Speech Therapy at Jijel University for metacognitive thinking skills due to the variable of the academic level, and the variable of the academic specialization.
Keywords
Metacognitive Thinking Skills, Planning Skill, Control and Monitoring Skill, Evaluation Skill, Bachelor's Students, Jijel University.