A Study on Metacognitive Awareness and Academic Grit among B.Ed. Trainees

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P. Sumitha, Rita Rani Mandal

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In this study on “Metacognitive Awareness and Academic Grit among B.Ed. trainees”. A sample of 300 teacher trainees studying in B.Ed. colleges were taken for this study.  The B.Ed. colleges are three different categories namely Government, Government Aided and Self finance colleges of Chennai, affiliated with Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University. In order to test the formulated hypotheses Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI) by Schraw. G and Dennison. R. S. (1994) and the Revised Turkish Version of Grit scale by Akin et al., (2011) were used. The result revealed that i. there is a significant difference in Metacognitive Awareness among B.Ed. trainees with respect to gender, ii. There is no significant difference in Metacognitive Awareness among B.Ed. trainees with respect to Government, Government Aided and Self finance Colleges of Education, iii. There is a significant difference in Academic Grit among B.Ed. trainees with respect to Tamil and English as the medium of instruction, iv. There is a significant difference in Academic grit among B.Ed. trainees with respect to below Rs. 1,00,000 and above Rs. 1,00,000 as family annual income.


   

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