Validating a Questionnaire for Mental Awareness
A key challenge for Spanish educational research in 2023 was the lack of a validated instrument to measure metacognition—the awareness of one's own mental processes—applicable across diverse learning contexts (e.g., mathematics, languages, coding).
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To address this, we adapted the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory for the Spanish population, providing evidence of its reliability, concurrent and divergent validity, and coherent factor structure. This validated measure was subsequently published in
Psicothema, a Q1-ranked journal in the Journal Citation Reports.
Project Overview
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Duration: 3 months.
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Role: Eduardo González led the research design, data collection, and analysis.
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Team: Team of 3 psychology researchers and 2 professional translators at the University of Oviedo.
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Key Tools: R and SPSS (for data analysis & modeling) and Google Forms (for the questionnaire design).
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Project Goal: To validate the factorial structure and psychometric properties of the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory adapted to Spanish.
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Methods: the MAI was administered to 1,076 university students across Spain. Psychometric validation procedures were employed, including the analysis of reliability, factor structure, concurrent validity, and discriminant validity
