Metacognitive skills are amongst the striking concept since a couple of decades, when Flavell, (1979) first introduced it. This concept is multidimensional in nature. Metacognition is a higher-order thinking skill. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to assess metacognitive awareness in prospective teachers and to find out how much our…

The research was the replication of the study done by Coutinho (2006) and it aimed at finding the relationship between achievement goals, meta-cognition and academic success. Achievement goals were further divided into two types: mastery and performance. The participants were 119 students enrolled in M. A. Education, Department of Education at the…

The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…