An appraisal of the metacognitive skills and learning styles of rural adolescents

Pages: 1001-1007
Gagandeep Kaur, Sarita Saini, and Deepika Vig (Department of Human Development and Family Studies College of Home Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)

The present study was conducted to examine the learning styles and metacognitive skills of rural adolescents. The sample for the study comprised 200 rural school going adolescents (grade 9th & 10th) randomly drawn from the selected Government Senior Secondary Schools of the selected village of Ludhiana-I Block. The subjects were equally distributed across both the grades (grade 9th =100 & grade 10th =100) as well as genders (males= 100 & females =100). VAK Learning Styles Self Assessment Questionnaire (Chislett & Chapman, 2005) and Meta-cognitive Awareness Inventory (Schraw & Dennison, 1994) were used to collect data. Results of this research indicated that the major proportion of sample adolescents had an average level of metacognition with a preference for Visual and Kinaesthetic learning style.