Detecting Metacognitive Awareness among Female Nursing Students

Background: Metacognition is one of the important components for successful learning. It is also important to teach the students to apply the concept of metacognition to attain their goal with self-regulatory learning. Objectives: To study the prevalence of metacognitive awareness among the female nursing students with respect to age and locality. Sample: It consists of sample of 261 (n = 261) female nursing students (131 urban students and 130 rural students). The sample was grouped based on their age from 17 years to 21 years.  Materials: The participants who consented for the study were assessed.  Socio-demographic data was collected followed by recording the responses of the participants using Metacognitive assessment inventory. Methodology: Mean, S. D., Percentile, t-Test and ANOVA were used to draw meaningful inferences. Results: The participants were selected approximately 25% from each age group. With high percentile score, Female nursing students of 20 – 21 years of age group have high metacognitive awareness and 17 – 18 years of age group of participants were having low metacognitive awareness. There is no significant mean difference between the students from the urban and rural background in metacognitive awareness. There is a significant difference between the age groups among the female nursing students with respect to metacognitive awareness. Conclusion: Senior students have increased metacognitive awareness than younger students. No differences between rural and urban students in metacognitive awareness. Significant difference was found between the age groups.