Assessing Metacognition in the Learning Process (MILP): Development of the MILP Inventory

• In Event: Poster Session 10
  In Poster Session: Assessment of Learning and Cognition

Abstract

Central research objective of this study is the construction of an instrument for the assessment of undergraduate students’ metacognition in the learning process (MILP). A pool of 128 items was created constituting 11 scales with 6 scales for different activities of metacognitive monitoring and 5 scales for metacognitive regulation processes. A panel of 9 experts assessed the 128-item MILP inventory for content validity, which resulted in an optimized 78-item version. The theory-derived 8-factor solution was subjected to confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in an undergraduate sample (n = 541). CFA results supported a multidimensional, 33-item, 6-factor solution with high scale consistencies. In its current state, the inventory can trace most of the theoretically expected metacognitive processes before, during and after learning.

Authors

• Inka Hähnlein, University of Passau

• Pablo Nicolai Pirnay-Dummer, University of Halle, Germany