Technical student' metacognitive skills: Relating general vs. specific metacognitive skills to study success

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 259-272

  Veenman, Marcel V J ^a   Verheij, Joke ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Domain specificity; Generality; Learning performance; Metacognitive skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035789811     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1041-6080(02)00094-8     Document Type: Article

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