PECULIARITIES IN UNDERSTANDING SCIENTIFIC TEXTS BY METACOGNITIVELY COMPETENT AND METACOGNITIVELY INCOMPETENT STUDENTS
The article is devoted to the current topic for higher education, namely, studying the psychological mechanisms of understanding academic texts by students. Practice of teaching students demonstrates that a lot of students have great difficulties with text comprehension and its interpretation. The article presents the results of the thesis research, the purpose of which was to study the metacognitive level of text comprehension. The results confirmed that metacognitive competence as a personal quality tends to vary significantly and has a great influence upon the process and result of text comprehension.