Investigation of the relationship between metacognition skills and academic procrastianation behaviors of the high school students

In this survey,it was anayzed the relation between metacognition abilities and academic procrastianation behaviors of senior high school students in terms of several other factors.This survey has been designed as a correlational survey.The sampling of the survey concists of the senior high school students in a city of Central Anatolia Region.The sampling of the survey contains 492 volunteer students chosen with the help of convenience sampling method.The data of the survey was gotten via academic procrastianation and metacognition ability scale prepared by surveyor.The data were analyzed using SPSS 22.00 version software.During the analysis,frequency and percentage tables,means of item scores,Kolmogorov-Smirnov test,Mann-Whitney U test,Kruskal-Wallis H test and Sperman Correlational Analysis were used. According to results of the survey,there is an intermidiate relation between metacognition abilities and academic behaviors of senior high school students. The points of metacognition ability weren't affected from gender and educational level of the students' parents;however were affected from socioeconomic level of the parents and type of the high school. The points of academic procrastianation weren't affected from socioeconomic level of the parents,educational level of mother and father;however were affected from gender of the students and the type of high school. At the end of the survey,it was detected .18 level positively but a poor relation between the points of metacognition ability and academic procrastianation. The results of the survey were argued in related literature basis and some proposals were offered. Keywords: Academic Procrastination, Senior High School, Metacognition