Test anxiety and metacognitive skillfulness: Availability versus production deficiencies

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 391-412

  Veenman, Marcel V J ^a   Kerseboom, Lieneke ^a   Imthorn, Cornelie ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Math performance; Metacognition; Test anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034344357     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615800008248343     Document Type: Article

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