The metacognitive skills and their relation with the motivational orientations in the light of the level of the academic performance: field study on a sample of students who will take up the Bac exam

Abstract

This study aims at knowing the nature of the relation between the metacognitive skills and the motivation orientations in the light of the level of the academic performance for the students who will sit for the Bac exam. To achieve the objective, we used the correlation descriptive method. We chose a sample of 150 male and female students of 3rd year who had been chosen at random from different secondary schools. Findings of the statistical procession showed the absence of a relation between the metacognitive skills with their three dimensions. and the motivation orientation.