Enhancing workplace learning for adolescents: The use of metacognitive instruction

Education + Training

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 8-24

  Munby, Hugh ^a   Zanibbi, Mike ^a   Poth, Cheryl Anne ^a   Hutchinson, Nancy L ^a   Chin, Peter ^a   Thornton, Antoinette ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Education; Employees; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847157334     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400910710729848     Document Type: Review

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