The effects of explicit teaching of metastrategic knowledge on low- and high-achieving students

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 337-353

  Zohar, Anat ^a   Peled, Bracha ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Control of variables; Metacognition; Metastrategic knowledge; Teaching of strategies; Thinking strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 43649101316     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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