The purpose of this research is to analyze geography teacher candidates’ metacognitive
awareness and to find out whether a significant difference exists according to gender and grade
level. For this purpose, Metacognitive Awareness Inventory that was originally developed by
Schraw and Dennison (1994) and adapted to Turkey by Özsoy and others (2010) in order to use
in this study over a total of 84 students in undergraduate programs in geography teaching
department, Dokuz Eylül University (Turkey), was applied in this study. Survey method was used
in the research. In data analysis, descriptive statistics, t-test and one-way variance analysis was
used. Results of the study revealed that geography teacher candidates’ have a medium-high level
metacognitive awareness. According to another result of the study, metacognitive awareness
scores of geography teacher candidate did not show significant differences according to gender
and class level variable.
