Metacognitive knowledge of effort, personality factors, and mood state: Their relationships with effort-related metacognitive experiences

Metacognition and Learning

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-49

  Efklides, Anastasia ^a   Kourkoulou, Anastasia ^a   Mitsiou, Frosso ^a   Ziliaskopoulou, Despina ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Effort; Metacognitive experiences; Metacognitive knowledge; Mood; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746428000     PISSN: 15561623     EISSN: 15561631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11409-006-6581-0     Document Type: Article

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