New Perspectives in Science Education

Edition 13

Accepted Abstracts

Students' Metacognitive Awareness, Motivation in Learning and Performance in Biology

Micheal Lezondra, Bicol University Graduate School Santa Rosa Science and Technology High School (Philippines)

Abstract

The study was conducted to determine the effect of the developed activities and lessons on students’ metacognitive awareness, motivation in learning and performance in Biology. Anchored on Self-Regulated Learning Theory, a quasi-experimental Pre-test, Intervention, Post-test Equivalent–Groups Design was used to test whether the developed activities and lessons increases metacognition, promote motivation towards Biology learning and performance in biology. Ninety-one Grade 9 students from two intact class of Santa Rosa Science and Technology High School served as respondents of the study. While experimental group (44 students) was taught with developed lessons and activities were utilized, control group (47 students) was taught using the learning modules provided by DepEd. Using weighted mean, two proportion Z-test and T-test it was found that the developed lessons and activities significantly helped increase students’ metacognitive awareness for the knowledge of cognition and regulation of cognition. Likewise, students’ motivation towards Biology learning in different aspects got a significant increase. These substantiates that the developed lessons and activities not only increases students’ metacognitive awareness but also students’ motivation towards biology learning. It also proves that there is a direct relationship between students’ metacognition and motivation.  Lastly, in terms of performance of the students, both experimental and control group got a significant improvement based from the mean percentage scores from the teacher-made test results. However, in terms of mean gain, the experimental group got a higher gain than the control group. This suggest that the developed lessons and activities are more effective than the DepEd modules used.

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