al e of the major difficulties on the field of metacognition has been to develop and put into practice valid surveys or inventories to measure metacognitive skills. Accordingly, this research aimed to determine the level of metacognitive awareness gained by th e teacher candidates studying different subject areas. The study was carried out on various departments of a faculty of educati on. In the plot phase, 30-item-scale was applied to 200 alpha was 0.71. With regard to MAS total scores, no

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... ference was found according to gender, high school type graduated, type of education whether it was day or evening and grade point averages. Results indicate that MAS scale yields profound information abou effectiveness of strategies they use. This study also illustrates the need of training students to use metacognitive strategies in the learning environments.