Profile metacognitive awareness of biology education students in microbiology course

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