Enhancing learning and problem solving skills: Orienting and self-judging, two powerful and trainable learnign tools

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 517-542

  Masui, Chris ^a,b   De Corte, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conation; Design experiment; Higher education; Learning skills; Metacognition; Orienting; Problem solving; Self judging; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006321460     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0959-4752(99)00012-2     Document Type: Article

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