Relationship Between Metacognitive Awareness of Undergraduate Students and Students’ Academic Performance at Vietnam Military Medical University

• DOI: 10.2147/amep.s412912
• Publication Date: 2023-07-17T05:25:11Z
• Authors: Kien Xuan Nguyen; Tien Viet Tran; Thuan Duc Nghiem; Tuan Ngoc Tran; Thang Ba Ta; Ba Van Nguyen; Tuan Dinh Le; Son Tien Nguyen; Kien Trung Nguyen; Hoa Trung Dinh; Dinh Cong Pho; Toan Nguyen Duy; Pham Quoc Toan
• Keywords: Medicine (General); R5-920; medical student; LC8-6691; 4. Education; academic performance; Advances in Medical Education and Practice; metacognitive awareness; 16. Peace & justice; metacognition; Special aspects of education; 3. Good health; Original Research

Introduction: Metacognition plays an essential role in competency-based medical education. Metacognitive skills consist of knowledge and regulation metacognition. This study was conducted to investigate the metacognition undergraduate students its correlation with students' academic performance. Methods: The metacognitive inventory comprised 52 binary-scale items administered 202 Vietnam Military Medical University students. entire semester clinical results were used measure their Results: total awareness score high (median 0.8). median significantly lower than (0.7 vs 0.8, respectively). participants a ≥ 0.8 had higher (full exam 7.4 7.5). group military, having sports habits usually searching documents English, proportion without these above characteristics (with percentages 53.3%, 59%, 64.3%, respectively; p < 0.05). number books read by those (3.5 compared 2.4 books). Conclusion: likely be high. A could predict Being military student, playing sports, reading books, English predictors better awareness. Keywords: metacognition, awareness, performance