Developmental dynamics of metacognitive knowledge and text comprehension skill in the first primary school years

Metacognition and Learning

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-39

  Annevirta, Tiina ^a   Laakkonen, Eero ^a   Kinnunen, Riitta ^a   Vauras, Marja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Latent growth curve analyses; Metacognitive knowledge; Text comprehension skill

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548244044     PISSN: 15561623     EISSN: 15561631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11409-007-9005-x     Document Type: Article

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