The developmental change of young pupils' metacognitive ability in mathematics in relation to their cognitive abilities

Cognitive Development

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 149-164

  Panaoura, Areti ^a   Philippou, George ^b  

^a Frederick Institute of Technology Nicosia   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Information processing; Metacognition; Metacognitive knowledge; Self regulation; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247099718     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2006.08.004     Document Type: Article

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