Metacognitive skills in the virtual university professionalization process

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Abstract

The sudden change to a virtual education is not only digitizing the contents to be taught, it is necessary to start working in another way, considering the metacognitive abilities of university students. That is why the objective of the research was to determine the relationship between metacognitive skills and the virtual process of university professionalization of students in the area of health sciences. The study had a mixed, non-experimental approach, with a correlational design and a sample population of 294 students from 6 professional careers to whom the instrument was applied, a metacognitive skills inventory (MAI), also for the collection of test scores. university professionalization, the auxiliary evaluation record was taken into account. Through data processing, it was obtained as a result that the categories knowledge of cognition and regulation of cognition are located with the highest percentage on the "agree"scale, reaching 61.40% and 61.25% respectively. The study shows that university students, during the development of virtual learning sessions, present the desired level in the management of metacognitive skills and their learning is rated as good. It is concluded that there is a relationship between metacognitive skills and virtual university professionalization in students in the area of health sciences.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2023 the 8th International Conference on Information and Education Innovations, ICIEI 2023
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages81-85
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9798400700613
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Apr 2023
Event8th International Conference on Information and Education Innovations, ICIEI 2023 - Manchester, United Kingdom
Duration: 13 Apr 202315 Apr 2023

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Information and Education Innovations, ICIEI 2023
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityManchester
Period13/04/2315/04/23

Bibliographical note

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Keywords

  • Metacognitive skills
  • cognitive knowledge and cognitive regulation
  • learning
  • university professionalization

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