The Study of Relationship Between Studentsâ Cognitive and Meta-cognitive Strategies and Interactions in Virtual Education with Academic Achievement

Saeed, Nasim; Zare, Hossein; Moosapour, Nematolah; Sarmadi, Mohamadreza; Hormozi, Mahmood

The Study of Relationship Between Studentsâ Cognitive and Meta-cognitive Strategies and Interactions in Virtual Education with Academic Achievement

Authors

Nasim Saeed ¹

Hossein Zare ²

Nematolah Moosapour ³

Mohamadreza Sarmadi ²

Mahmood Hormozi ²

¹ Ph.D. Student in Distance Education, Payamnour, University

² Faculty of Literature and Human Science Payamnour University

³ Faculty of Literature and Human Science Bahonar University

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between cognitive and meta-cognitive strategies and interactions of bachelor students in virtual universities and their academic achievement. In a correlation-Descriptive study, 352 bachelor students were selected from virtual universities. The gathering instrument was a two section questionnaire with 38 items. Students’ grade point average was considered as academic achievement. Data were analyzed by using analysis of variance, simple regression, T-test and multiple regression. Findings from this research showed that there is a significant relation between students’ cognitive and meta-cognitive strategies and interactions in virtual environment with their academic achievement. Furthermore, a factor that had the most predictability in interaction and academic achievement was interaction between faculty and learner, and in cognitive and meta-cognitive strategies were design and planning

Keywords

Cognitive and Meta- cognitive Strategies

interactions

virtual education

academic achievement

students