Role of Metacognitive abilities and Academic Resilience in Scholastic achievement of School Students

Abstract

The world of today is full of competition. To meet the challenges of the modern global world, it is important for the students to attain academic achievement. Academic achievement is considered as an important objective of education. It is regarded as a key criterion to assess one‘s total capabilities. But in today‘s competitive world, students have to face a lots of difficulties in getting academic success like challenging subjects, demanding schedules, peer pressure difficulty in learning, challenging environment at home and at school etc. These situation creates obstacles in the way of their academic success. They can only be successful if they will overcome all these challenging situation or difficulties. Wang et .al (1994) suggested that the academic resilience as the heightened possibility of success in school despite environment adversities bought about by early traits, conditions and experiences. Students should seek to build their academic resilience. Those students who easily cope with difficulties and challenging situation are considered as academic resilient. Resilient students sustain high levels of achieved motivation and performance despite the presences of stressful events and conditions. Metacognition effects the academic resilience among students. Metacognition skills or abilities enable learners to use skills and knowledge in situations other than those in which the skill was learned. In this paper, we put forward the idea that metacognitive skills and academic resilience which helps students in academic achievement. According to Mark Estrada ―metacognition is an important skill that students should be explicitly taught and developed throughout a student‘s educational career.‖ Therefore, there is a substantial relationship between metacognition and resilience. Metacognition helps to maintain the concept with the efficiency of resilience.