Validity Evidence of a Scale Designed to Assess Children's Metacognition

ABSTRACT Thoughts and knowledge that individuals have about their own cognitive processes define the term metacognition. The aim of this work was to continue the validation process of Metacognition Scale (EMETA) analyzing evidence based on the structure and consistency internal and a comparison between the means to investigate the influences of variables such as gender, school type and age of participants. The results found with 196 participants between 9 and 12 years old indicate the presence of a single factor called Metacognition and the possibility to reduction for 40 items. There was no significant difference influenced by the three variables. Despite the favorable results to the accumulation of evidence of validity, other parameters must still be evaluated on future researches.