Prepare your mind for learning

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 115-118

  Smith, Deborah K ^a   Moores, Trevor ^a   Chang, Jerry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MENTAL BLOCKS; METACOGNITIVE JUDGEMENTS; METACOGNITIVE MISCALIBRATION (MM); PROFESSIONALS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; MOTIVATION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 25444474228     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1081992.1081999     Document Type: Review

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