The Preliminary Construction Of The Scale For College Student's Metacognitive Ability

The metacognitive ability of college student is a very important ability. It is a cognitive ability with regard to own cognitive phenomena. It is one of important task in psychological research. The investigations about the metacognitive ability of college student take on quite crucial significance in academic aspect or one of practice. On the one hand, the definition of the metacognitive ability of college student is on-limits in theory. The structure should be progressed by investigation. On the other hand, the most merit about the study of the metacognitive ability of college student is that in practice it can bring into play undergraduate potential and their effect of principal part. In addition, the metacognitive ability of college student exerts pivotal function in their cognitive activities. It brings to bear important impact to their cognitive course and effect. "Transference serve as a purpose of teaching" is a important point of view in educational psychology. The teaching would take on even better impression if we can pay more attention to the aspect of the metacognitive ability of college student in course of activities of teaching. In this way, teaching can improve undergraduate academic achievement and would take on the effect of transference better. Psychologists are certain of fostering; training and advancement on the metacognitive ability of college student are provided with quite important practice meaning and applied account. That is to say, it should turn into immediate objective in colleging. This thesis adopted some research methods such as literature study , deep interview and questionnaire investigation for investigating the structure of The metacognitive ability of college student. In addition, the study used Exploratory Factor Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis to process data. The main findings are:1. The metacognitive ability of college student is composed of four factors. They are: metacognitive planning , metacognitive monitoring , metacognitive regulating and metacognitive evaluating.2. The study to the structure of the metacognitive ability of college...