Confiabilidad interna del inventario de habilidades Metacognitivas –Mai en estudiantes universitarios colombianos

Abstract

This work sought to validate the MAI instrument (metacognitive skills inventory), which identifies the metacognitive skills of subjects, in a university-trained population in Colombia. It was applied to 250 university students, from 7 different universities and taking into account variables such as: gender, area of ​​knowledge and academic semester. In this research, of a quantitative type, a collection of information is made from a descriptive framework. The information was manually tabulated and then analyzed with the help of the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) 20.0 program. The results were analyzed by means of Cronbach's Alpha coefficient, which for the instrument was 0.98 in general and for the eight categories ranged between 0.75 and 0.96.