Study of factor structure and validity Metacognition scale

metacognition means cognition about cognition and knowledge of cognition, cognitive processes and whatever is related to it.introduce and offer a convenient tool for evalution this variable and demonstration its crucial rloe various fields of achievement is necessary.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the pshychometric properties Persian form of  The Awareness of Independent Learning Inventory (AILI), (Elshout-Mohr, Meijer and Van Daalen-Kopteijns, 2004),inclouding stability,validity and explaratory factor analysis of scale,making preparation to be used in educational researches is done.

The sample of this study consisted of 300 students (214 female and 86 male), that were selected from the student of Tarbit Moallem University of Tehran. Random cluster sampling was used. The instrument for data gathering include: The Awareness of Independent Learning Inventory (AILI), (Elshout-Mohr, Meijer and Van Daalen-Kopteijns, 2004) and tested with metacognition scale.

Findings of explaratory factor analysis with principal components analysis, in addition to general metacognition factor identified three  factors (knowledge of cognition, Experience of cognition and Regulation of cognition) for metacognition scale according to Elshout-Mohr, Meijer and Van Daalen-Kopteijns, 2004.stability of metacognition scale calculated and confirmed on results of two times implementation test in the initial phaseof 30sample and second phase on 300  students of Tarbit Moallem University of Tehran , internal consistencey  by Cronbach alpha coefficients for the sample and so ordinal Theta if a question deleted

The results of factor analysis,was similar to befor studies in the primary culture and validity and stability coefficients were close to the results of previous studies also. Due to  favorable pshychometric properties, this research tools can be used in researches related to metacognition.