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Table 3 Descriptive and comparison summary of the metacognitive awareness scores

From: Enhancing generic capabilities and metacognitive awareness of first-year nursing students using active learning strategy

 

Pre-test

Mean (SD)

Post-test

Mean (SD)

p-value

Knowledge of Cognition subscale

  Declarative knowledge

28.87 (3.26)

30.35 (3.42)

< 0.001

  Procedural knowledge

14.68 (1.60)

15.42 (2.84)

< 0.001

  Conditional knowledge

18.16 (2.21)

19.07 (2.01)

< 0.001

  Total

61.71 (6.60)

64.84 (6.95)

< 0.001

Regulation of Cognition subscale

  Planning

25.50 (2.96)

26.62 (4.58)

< 0.001

  Information management

36.74 (4.08)

38.58 (5.11)

< 0.001

  Monitoring

25.53 (2.90)

26.31 (2.83)

< 0.001

  Debugging

18.61 (2.40)

19.36 (2.05)

< 0.001

  Evaluation

21.68 (2.82)

22.63 (2.48)

< 0.001

  Total

128.05 (13.76)

133.49 (13.70)

< 0.001

MAI total

189.76 (20.04)

198.33 (19.67)

< 0.001

  1. MAI Metacognitive Awareness Inventory; A paired t-test was performed with p < 0.05 considered statistically significant