The Benefits of Peer Collaboration on Strategy Use, Metacognitive Causal Attribution, and Recall

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 268-289

  Manion, Victoria ^a   Alexander, Joyce M ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PEER GROUP; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; THINKING;

CHILD; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PEER GROUP; PROBLEM SOLVING; THINKING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0031278560     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1997.2409     Document Type: Article

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