Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI, Schraw & Dennison)
EducationReliability: alpha 0.953 sample items
About this scale
A 52-item measure of metacognitive awareness across two main components: knowledge of cognition (declarative, procedural, conditional) and regulation of cognition (planning, information management, monitoring, debugging, evaluation).
Sample item(s)
“I understand my intellectual strengths and weaknesses. (knowledge of cognition)”
“I ask myself periodically if I am meeting my goals. (regulation – monitoring)”
“I summarize what I've learned after I finish. (regulation – evaluation)”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.95. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Free for academic use.
Source & citation
Schraw, G., & Dennison, R. S. (1994): Assessing metacognitive awareness. Contemporary Educational Psychology, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 460–475.
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