The Role of Questionnaires in Large-Sale Survey of Academic Ability: Suggestion and Consideration from the Metacognition about Items in the Questionnaire

Abstract

　　The purpose of this paper is to consider the role of questionnaires about school mathematics performance on the basis of the results of academic ability conducted by local government.　The authors have analyzed the relationship of the result of the problems and items on metacognitive knowledge in the questionnaire.

　　The following things become clear and are proposed from the result.

(1)　The mathematics performance is related to the strength of awareness about the metacognitive knowledge.

(2)　We propose an example of teaching and learning processes that introduced metacognitive support.

(3)　We propose the following items about metacognitive knowledge should be added to questionnaire.

　　●　You must reread a problem once again, when a problem cannot be solved.

　　●　You may solve by another method, when a problem cannot be solved.

　　●　It is better for you to think through drawing a figure, when solving a problem.

　　●　It is better for you to think through writing a formula, when solving a problem.

　　●　When solving a problem, it is better for you to think also by another method, if you can do it by one method.