The impact of strategy instruction and timing of estimates on low and high working-memory capacity readers' absolute monitoring accuracy

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-143

  Linderholm, Tracy ^a   Zhao, Qin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Metacomprehension; Monitoring; Reading comprehension; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149098897     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

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