Testing Construct Validity of Metacognition Scale of Nursing Students Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Abstract

Abstract
The purposes of this research were to test construct validity of metacognition scale using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The participants were 600 senior undergraduate nursing students by Multi-stage random sampling. The research instrument was metacognition scale developed by using 21 items of computer multimedia with content validity ranging between .60-1.00 and marginal reliability of .65. The collected data were analyzed with confirmatory factor analysis through LISREL. The results were as follows: The confirmatory factor analysis of metacognition model revealed 2 factors namely metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive control. The metacognitive knowledge factor consisted of 3 indicators including strategy knowledge, self-knowledge and cognitive task knowledge. The factor loadings were .30 .23 and .14 respectively. The metacognitive control factor consisted of 3 indicators including monitoring, evaluation and planning. The factor loadings were .71 .60 and .50 respectively. The validation of goodness of fitted model yielded a Chi-square of 7.724, p=.461 at a degree of freedom of 8 (GFI= 0.996, AGFI = 0.989 and RMSEA=0.000). The metacognition scale of nursing students has construct validity.