Analysis of Metacognition Skills of Students in Junior High School Based on Cognitive Style Lihar Raudina Izzati, Ali Mahmudi
1Graduate Program of Mathematics Education, Yogyakarta State University, Jl Colombo No 1, Karangmalang, Depok, Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2Mathematics Education Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Yogyakarta State University, Jl Colombo No 1, Karangmalang, Depok, Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the aspect of mathematical metacognition skills of students in Junior High School based on cognitive style. Metacognition is an important factor of mathematical problem solving. Metacognition is the ability to monitor and control our own thoughts, how we approach the problem, how we choose the strategies to find a solution, or ask ourselves about the problem, in the other word, it can be defined as think about thinking. Another thing that needs attention in mathematical problem solving is cognitive style. Cognitive style refers to a persons characteristics in responding, processing, storing, thinking, and using information to respond to a task or different types of environmental situations. Cognitive style that used in this paper are Field Dependent (FD) and Field Independent (FI) cognitive style. People with FD cognitive style tend to perceive a pattern as a whole, it is difficult for him to focus on one aspect of the situation or analyze a pattern into various parts and people with FI cognitive style tend to perceive separate parts of a pattern according to its components.
