The levels of metacognitive awareness of primary teacher trainees

Bu çalışma, 04-07 Şubat 2009 tarihleri arasında Nicosia[Kıbrıs]’da düzenlenen World Conference on Educational Sciences’da bildiri olarak sunulmuştur.The aim of this study is to determine the level of metacognitive awareness of primary teacher trainees and to examine whether there is a difference according to class levels and gender or not. In accordance with this purpose, the inventory of metacognitive awareness was applied to 263 candidate teachers (157 female, 106 male), studying at Uludag University. At the end of the study, it was understood that the majority of the primary teacher trainees had high level of metacognitive awareness. Furthermore, there appeared no significant difference among the scores of candidate teachers' metacognitive awareness according to gender, but there appeared significant difference among the scores of candidate teachers' metacognitive awareness according to class levels