The Matthayom and Senior High School Student’s Metacognition Profile on Solving Pisa Test Shape and Space Content Based on Van Hiele Level

Abstract

Profile of the students’ metacognition observed in this research was an activity that involved the abilities and metacognition processes of the students at each level of van Hiele thinking, including knowledge of metacognition and metacognition settings in solving geometrical problems in shape and space content. This type of research was descriptive with qualitative approach. Descriptive research was used in this research because it described or explained the variables studied, namely the level of van Hiele and Metacognition in schools in Indonesia and Thailand. The data collection methods used were van Hiele, PISA and interview tests. The results of the data analysis found that the students of visual level in Indonesia and Thailand in the planning stage were able to think about what to do, but in the monitoring stage, the students asked themselves questions about the purpose of the problems. However, in the evaluation stage they still doubt of what they decided, the students of analysis level in Indonesia and Thailand in the planning, monitoring and evaluation stages were quite sure of what they have thought.