Innovation for measuring students' metacognitive abilities through project-based learning

Metacognitive abilities can influence how students learn independently to achieve academic success. For this reason, the study aimed to examine how project-based learning can enhance students’ metacognitive abilities and identify students’ metacognitive awareness. To understand those goals, three steps of data collection were done, including pre-test, post-test, observation, and questionnaires. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were conducted to better understand the problem and the results. As a result, the ability of students to solve metacognitive problems has improved. The Gain index from the student learning process is 0.7, means it has a significant increase. It was also explained that their metacognitive abilities had developed judging by the changes in their ability categories that were observed during project implementation. Several aspects, including search strategy and planning, were evident in students' metacognitive awareness after project-based learning.