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The purpose of the study was to further examine the profile of metacognition of vocational high school students of the Machine Technology program that had high ability and field independent cognitive style in mathematical problem solving. The design of this study was exploratory research with a qualitative approach. This research was conducted at the Machine Technology program of the vocational senior high school. The result revealed that the high-ability students with field independent cognitive style conducted metacognition practices well that involved the three types of metacognition activities, consisting of planning, monitoring, and evaluating at metacognition level 2 or aware use, 3 or strategic use, 4 or reflective use in mathematical problem solving. The applicability of the metacognition practices conducted by the subjects was never at metacognition level 1 or tacid use. This indicated that the subjects were already aware, capable of choosing strategies, and able to reflect on their own thinking before, after, or during the process at the time of solving mathematical problems which were very necessary for the vocational high school students of Machine Technology program.

Profile Of Metacognition, Vocational High School, Field Independent, Mathematical Problem Solving