Abstract:
This research aim to determine the effect of metacognitive awareness on student achievement index of Biology Education Department University of Papua. The research method using expost facto. The research at Biology Education Department. The number of sample is 110 students were taken using proportionate stratified random sampling technique. Metacognitive awareness is measured using a questionnaire MAI (Metacognitive Awarennes Inventory) which was adopted from Schraw & Dennison and student achievement index data obtained from documentation of Biology Education Department. Analysis of data using simple regression analysis at the significant level of 0.05. The result showed that the highest percentage of metacognitive awareness aspect is the debugging strategies with a percentage of 84.9% and the lowest aspect is declarative knowledge with a percentage 58.0%. Based on the result of regression analysis that there are effect of metacognitive awareness to student achievement index of Biology Education Department of 22.6% with regression equation ŷ = 1.519 + 0,016X indicating that any increase in the value of metacognitive awareness will increase student achievement index gathering of 0,016 on 1,519 constants
