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Meta Cognitive Skills Affecting Academic Achievements amongst Students of SDAU

The study was undertaken under AGRESCO project for the year 2020-2021, at Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University of Gujarat state; with the aim to find meta-cognitive skills amongst boys and girls of SDAU students. Representative samples of 160 respondents were proportionately selected from all the colleges of SDAU. Standardized scale namely “Meta-cognitive skills scale MCSS-GMS” developed by Dr. Madhu Gupta and Ms. Suman was used for data collection. Due to covid-19, the data was collected by questionnaire method. Statistical analysis was done by computing, frequency, percentage, standard deviation, and correlation co-efficient. The results shows that 67.50 per cent of the respondents belonged to ‘Average Meta-cognitive Level’, When Meta-cognitive skills amongst boys and girls of SDAU students were compared it was found that there is statistically high difference of z= 4.61 (P<0.0001) and boys (Mean=153.21) has significantly higher Meta-cognitive skill in comparison to girl students (Mean=143.44). All the students plan and monitor their learning in same manner, irrespective of their gender but boys showed higher implementation skill and evaluation skill, in comparison to girls. It can be concluded from the table that gender and CGPA shows positive and significant correlation. It can be concluded from the study that Meta Cognitive Skills affects academic achievements amongst students of SDAU.