Developmental patterns of school students' motivational- and cognitive-metacognitive competencies

Educational Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-98

  Mok, Yan Fung ^a   Fan, Ruth Mei Tai ^b   Pang, Nicholas Sun Keung ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Age; Class level; Cognition; Competence development; Gender; Metacognitive development; Motivation; Schoolchildren

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847325785     PISSN: 03055698     EISSN: 14653400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03055690600948281     Document Type: Article

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