An action research in science: Providing metacognitive support to year 9 students

© 2016 Wagaba et al. An action research study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of providing metacognitive support to enhance Year 9 students’ metacognitive capabilities in order to better understand science concepts related to light, environmental health, ecosystems, genetics, ecology, ato...

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Main Authors: Wagaba, F., Treagust, David, Chandrasegaran, Chandra, Won, Mihye
Format: Journal Article
Published: Look Academic Publishers 2016
Online Access:http://www.ijese.net/makale/713
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33177
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Treagust, David
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description © 2016 Wagaba et al. An action research study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of providing metacognitive support to enhance Year 9 students’ metacognitive capabilities in order to better understand science concepts related to light, environmental health, ecosystems, genetics, ecology, atoms and the Periodic Table. The study was conducted over three years involving 35, 20 and 24 students in each year. The interventions included providing students with clearly stated focused outcomes about the relevant science concepts, engaging in collaborative group work, reading scientific texts and using concept mapping techniques. The data to evaluate the effectiveness of the metacognitive interventions were obtained from pre- and posttest results of the Metacognitive Support Questionnaire (MSpQ). The results showed gains in the MSpQ.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-331772019-09-24T08:10:53Z An action research in science: Providing metacognitive support to year 9 students Wagaba, F. Treagust, David Chandrasegaran, Chandra Won, Mihye © 2016 Wagaba et al. An action research study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of providing metacognitive support to enhance Year 9 students’ metacognitive capabilities in order to better understand science concepts related to light, environmental health, ecosystems, genetics, ecology, atoms and the Periodic Table. The study was conducted over three years involving 35, 20 and 24 students in each year. The interventions included providing students with clearly stated focused outcomes about the relevant science concepts, engaging in collaborative group work, reading scientific texts and using concept mapping techniques. The data to evaluate the effectiveness of the metacognitive interventions were obtained from pre- and posttest results of the Metacognitive Support Questionnaire (MSpQ). The results showed gains in the MSpQ. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33177 http://www.ijese.net/makale/713 Look Academic Publishers fulltext
spellingShingle Wagaba, F.
Treagust, David
Chandrasegaran, Chandra
Won, Mihye
An action research in science: Providing metacognitive support to year 9 students
title An action research in science: Providing metacognitive support to year 9 students
title_full An action research in science: Providing metacognitive support to year 9 students
title_fullStr An action research in science: Providing metacognitive support to year 9 students
title_full_unstemmed An action research in science: Providing metacognitive support to year 9 students
title_short An action research in science: Providing metacognitive support to year 9 students
title_sort action research in science: providing metacognitive support to year 9 students
url http://www.ijese.net/makale/713
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33177