The influence of self-efficacy and metacognitive prompting on math problem-solving efficiency

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 875-893

  Hoffman, Bobby ^a   Spatariu, Alexandru ^b  

^a 225 Clinical Services Building   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Math problem solving; Metacognitive prompting; Self efficacy; Self regulation; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 52749086243     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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