Metacognitive thinking skills among talented science education students

Authors : Mohammad ALGASEEM, Bakkar BAKKAR, Suhail ALZOUBI

Pages : 897-904

Doi:10.17478/jegys.707205

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Publication Date : 2020-06-15

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Metacognitive thinking skills in teacher education is very important. Therefore, it is important to focus on understanding education instead of memorization, using knowledge, solving problems related to new situations, being able to explain, synthesize and generalize and develop hypotheses. The purpose of this research was to examine the level of metacognitive thinking skills insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(MTSs); among talented science education students insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(TSESs); at Sultan Qaboos University insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(SQU);, Oman. A purposeful sample of 77 TSESs was used to achieve this goal. The TSESs are registered in the Bachelor of Science Education program, and they have a high academic achievement. The TSESs responded to Omani Metacognitive Thinking Scale. This scale consists of 42 items distributed into three domains: Knowledge of cognition, regulation of cognition, and cognitive processing. The results indicated that TSESs possessed a high level of MTSs.
Keywords : Metacognitive thinking skills, cognitive processing, talented students, teacher education