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Table 1 Metacognitive awareness scores according to age, gender and year of medical programme

From: Relationship between metacognitive awareness and motivation to learn in medical students

 

Metacognitive awareness

Knowledge about cognition

Regulation of cognition

Median

IQR

p*

Median

IQR

p*

Gender

 Male (n = 103)

0.66

0.14

0.045

0.66

0.17

0.546

 Female (n = 82)

0.66

0.17

0.66

0.17

Year of medical course

 3rd (n = 75)

0.66

0.2

0.997

0.69

0.2

0.294

 4th (n = 110)

0.66

0.11

0.66

0.14

Age group

 Up to 24 (n = 152)

0.66

0.11

0.661

0.66

0.17

0.397

  > 24 (n = 33)

0.66

0.17

0.66

0.16

  1. *Mann-Whitney U-test