Analysis of the relationship between metacognitive ability and learning activity with kit-build concept map

Abstract

Metacognitive ability is one of important ability in learning. If learners can monitor their own cognition and know strategies to control it, they can make their thinking better and get better performance. Concept mapping gathers attention as a tool to facilitate metacognition. This study investigates the relationship between metacognitive ability and learning activity with Kit-build concept map (KB map). In KB map method concept maps cannot be built freely. A teacher forms what he/she wants to teach as a concept map. This is called goal map. And then, this is decomposed into separated nodes and likes. These parts are provides to learners and they make a concept map with the parts to represent their understanding. Like this, the method doesn’t allow freedom to build concept maps. Instead, a teacher can grade maps of learners with consistency as the degree of the same parts as the gal map. The degree can be an important indicator of understanding of learners. Metacognitive ability can be decomposed into three sub abilities: metacognitive monitoring, control and knowledge. This study investigates correlation between these sub abilities and score of map. The correlation presents, in learning with KB map, which sub ability affect map score, that is, understanding of learner. The result shows there is the correlation between metacognitive control and map scores. From this result, it can be considered that Kb map helps learners to monitoring their cognition.