Psychometric Properties of Metacognitive Awareness Inventory and its Relationship with achievement goals in Secondary School Students in Shahriar City

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory and its relationship to Achievement Goals between female’s secondary school students in Shahriyar city. From statistical population consisted of 10500 high school female students of Shahriyar Secondary Schools in 97-98 academic year with a sample size of 561 by multistage random sampling and responded to the Schraw and Dennison (1994) meta-cognitive awareness questionnaire and the Elliot and McGregor (2004) achievement goals questionnaire. To evaluate the reliability of the metacognitive awareness questionnaire, using a T-test method on 53 subjects over two three-week intervals, the coefficient α = 0.79 for the whole questionnaire and α = 0.82 for the scales and subscales. It was achieved to indicate the characteristic of test stability over time. In addition, the results of the validity of the questionnaire with Cronbach's alpha method on a sample of 561 individuals, for the whole questionnaire was α = 0.82 and for the subscales and scales α = 0.84 indicating internal consistency of the question. Eight factors were obtained to investigate the construct validity using exploratory factor analysis, consequently confirmatory factor analysis, it was found that the instrument had an acceptable fit. In order to investigate convergent validity, the factors obtained from exploratory factor analysis were analyzed. The results show that the factors of the questionnaire have good convergent validity, that is, they measure what they need to measure. Concurrent validity confirmed the correlation between the metacognitive awareness questionnaire and achievement goals.