Relationship between metacognition, goal orientation and academic achievement

Metacognition is a self monetary process which helps the individual to find out strategies to learn and memorize. This ability helps the students to gain achievement orientation, either mastery or performance, which in turn results in academic success. Following study aspires to find out relationship between these three variables among graduates of public and private universities. All university graduates of public and private sector comprise the population of the study. Convenient sampling technique was used to collect data. The data was collected through survey encompassing goal orientation scale, metacognition scale (MAI) and demographic information. The data was analyzed by using correlation analysis. The results showed that there was a moderate relationship between metacognition and goal orientation and academic achievement but week relation was found between metacognition and achievement.