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Metacognitive awareness constitutes a part of thinking skills to continuously retain and develop. One of efforts to increase metacognitive awareness is conducting training through lecture integrated in active learning. Self and peer-assessments encourage students to be more responsible for their performance improvement and learning. The population comprised students attending Natural Science course in Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Muhammadiyah Malang; while the samples were all members of the population taken by means of saturation sampling technique. The technique of data collection was by means of Schraw and Dennison MAI (Metacognition Awareness Instrument), written test, and document analysis. The result path analysis showed: 1) there are influences of self and peer assessment in active learning towards awareness of Metacognition and cognitive ability; 2) cognitive knowledge, regulation of cognitive, and combined both contributed to its influence on Metacognition awareness; 3) cognitive knowledge, regulation of cognitive, and combined both contributed to its influence on cognitive variables; and 4) metacognitive awareness variables have a direct contribution to cognitive variables that are the influence of factors outside the metacognitive awareness variable.

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert