Instrument Overview
Sensitive to short-term changes in metacognitive monitoring and control. Applicable across academic tasks and experimental learning settings.
Susceptibility to hindsight bias. Limited evidence of consistent factor structure across contexts and populations.
The State Metacognitive Inventory consists of 20 items that measure self-regulatory processes in high school and college aged students within academic settings. Question items are scored on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). The inventory is comprised of 4 subscales: Awareness, Cognitive strategy, Planning, and Self-checking.
Organization
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Administration Information
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Awareness: .78 (Cronbach's alpha)
Cognitive strategy: .77 (Cronbach's alpha)
Planning: .78 (Cronbach's alpha)
Self-checking: .73 (Cronbach's alpha)
