Relations between young students' strategic behaviours, domain-specific self-concept, and performance in a problem-solving situation

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 144-157

  Dermitzaki, Irini ^a   Leondari, Angeliki ^a   Goudas, Marios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cognition; Metacognition; Motivation; Self concept in mathematics; Self regulatory strategies; Volition

Indexed keywords

EID: 58949099704     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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