Exploration of Students' Metacognitive Experience in Physics Classroom

Abstract

Metacognition has been accepted as one desirable attribute for learners in the 21st century. There are a number of researech studies related to how to promote metacognition in school students. This study aimed to explore students' metacognitive expereince in one physics classroom in the equilibrium of moments topic. The research participants were 35 Grade 9 students from one secondary school located at Nakhon Ratchasima province in the northeastern region of Thailand. After learning physics, the participating students were asked to respond to the Metacognitive Experience Questionnaire (MEQ). The studnets' metacognitive experience was analyzed for mean and standard deviation. The finding revealed that the students derived the neutral to frequently levels of expereience in metacotnition in the physics classroom. This finding suggests to add more metacognitive expereience for Grade 9 students.