Metacognitive Skills Relationship With Gender And Malay Subject Achievement Of Malaysian Vocational Certificate Students

Abstract

The effectiveness of using metacognitive skills in learning has already been proved through previous studies. Learning is believed to be more effective with the application of metacognitive skills. Metacognitive skills are seen to provide many benefits for an individual, especially students to develop their learning strategies over time. This study aims to find out the characteristics and level of metacognitive skills of vocational college students in Malay subjects. This study also examines the relationship between metacognitive skills according to gender and Malay language achievement among Malaysian vocational certificate (SVM) students using questions investigating 'State Metacognitive Inventory' by O'Neil and Abedi (1996). Questionnaires contain four constructs, ie aspects awareness, strategy cognitive, planning and  regulation self This study uses a descriptive design consisting of 331 students who were selected using a random sampling procedure. The findings of the study found that the most dominant metacognitive skills among students are aspects of cognitive planning and strategy.test analysis Mann Whitney - U shows that there is a significant difference in metacognitive skills between genders and female students have higher metacognitive skills compared to male students.correlation analysis Spearman Rho shows that there is a significant relationship between metacognitive skills and Malay language achievement among SVM students, which is a very weak relationship. Overall, metacognitive skills are still applied, practiced and applied in Malay language learning by SVM students in vocational colleges.