Relation between intellectual ability and metacognitive skillfulness as predictors of learning performance of young students performing tasks in different domains

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 128-134

  van der Stel, Manita ^a   Veenman, Marcel V J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Domain independent; Domain specific; Intelligence; Metacognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149113776     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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