The Relationship between Teacher Candidates’ Metacognitive Awareness Levels and Achievements

In this research, it was aimed to investigate the metacognitive awareness levels of the preservice teachers, whether these levels demonstrate differences or not in terms of the department, class level and gender variables and the case of metacognitive awareness predicting their academic achievements. The research was carried out with 764 participants. Data of this research were the demographic characteristics of participants, academic achievement and their metacognitive awareness levels. As a result of the study, it was determined that a great number of the participants had high level of awareness. It was observed that the variables the combination of the studied department and department and class level made a significant difference on awareness. In addition, there was a positive and weak relationship between the academic achievement and metacognitive awareness, the metacognitive awareness was a significant predictor of the academic achievement and explained 1% of the variance meaningfully