Metacognitive Skills: A Solution in Chemistry Problem Solving

Abstract

One of the skills needed in the 21st century is thinking skills including metacognitive skills. Many studies showed that undergraduate students who used metacognitive skills are more successful in learning. This study aims to illustrate using metacognitive skills as a solution in chemistry problem solving and undergraduate students’ respond. The design used One Group Pre-test and Post-test Design. The subject of this study was the undergraduate students of chemistry class academic year 2019/2020 as many as 31 people. To obtain the profile data of metacognitive skills and undergraduate students’ respond through an essay test, interview, and questionnaire. Research data were analysed by quantitative descriptive. The results showed that: (1) performance of metacognitive skills of undergraduate students has high category in chemistry problem solving on each indicator. The indicators were goal setting, identify the known knowledge, determining the learning strategies, monitoring the relevance of the known knowledge with learning strategies, monitoring the goal achievement in the making conclusions, and evaluating the process and thinking outcomes, and (2) most of the undergraduate students are pleasant to join to this learning activity. Based on the results of this study, metacognitive skills can be used as a solution in chemistry problem-solving.