Abstract:
Metacognitive ability refers to self-cognitive awareness and the process of how
cognitive works and how to manage them. The lack of metacognitive ability causes students to
get less able to use appropriate learning strategies that will affect the cognitive abilities. This
study aims to determine the profile of metacognitive awareness of students of the microbiology
course and the relationship between metacognitive awareness and the ability to understand the
concept of microbiology. The subjects of the study were 28 students who took microbiology
courses at Educational Institutions and Teachers in West Java. The metacognitive data awareness
was collected using the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI) and the understanding ability
measured by multiple choice test. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The conclusion
shows that students metacognitive ability in the microbiology course is still low. The percentage
of student’s metacognitive ability criterion showed less indication (32%), enough (43%), good
(25%). There is a relationship between the metacognitive awareness criteria and the ability to
understand the basic concepts of microbiology. Students who have less and enough
metacognitive awareness criteria obtained understanding ability score lower than the good
criteria
