The Factorial Structure of The Group Metacognition Scale in A Sample of Faculty of Education Students

Fathi Okasha, Mr. Dr. Mahmoud; Al-Saeed Al-Banna, Mr. Dr. Adel; Abdul Ghani Sorour, Mr. Dr. Said; Al-Talwani Abdel Azim Al-Talwani, Amal

doi:10.21608/jehs.2022.224530

The Factorial Structure of The Group Metacognition Scale in A Sample of Faculty of Education Students

Document Type : Original Article

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10.21608/jehs.2022.224530

Abstract

The current study aimed to develop a Group Metacognition Scale (GMS) and verify its The Factorial Structure as well as the psychometric properties of the scale in order to analyze Group metacognition skills during Collaborative learning activities, The study was conducted on a sample of (426) male and female students in the fourth year in the Faculty of Education, Damanhour University, in the second semester of the academic year 2020-2021. The results of the exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis showed that the 45 items of the scale are saturated on three factors, namely (Group metacognitive knowledge - Group metacognitive skills Which includes three sub-factors (monitoring - planning - control) –
Group metacognitive judgments).

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