KEMAMPUAN METAKOGNISI SISWA SMA DALAM PEMECAHAN MASALAH MATEMATIS

Abstract

Metacognition is a person's knowledge, awareness, and control of his thought process. Metacognition has an essential role in encouraging the students' awareness of the existing problem that needs to be solved, focusing on the problems and how to get the solution. The problem-solving strategy used to avoid inappropriate planning has been created and obtain the exact solution. This study aimed to describe the results of describing the metacognition of Year 10 students in solving mathematical problems. The researcher used a descriptive qualitative approach. The subjects were Year 10 students from one of the senior high schools in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Data collection involved a test to group students into three categories: high, medium, and low. Furthermore, students from each category were interviewed. This study used time triangulation to increase the data validity. The results indicated that the high category students have good metacognitive abilities and achieved all metacognitive indicators in understanding problems they planned, monitoring and evaluating each stage of problem-solving, understanding, planning, conducting, and re-examining. The medium category students only conducted the planning and monitoring. In comprehending the problem stages, the students carried out and re-checking problem-solving. In addition, the students from the low category only did planning, monitoring, and evaluating the steps of understanding and implementing problem-solving.