Epistemological beliefs and epistemic strategies in self-regulated learning

Metacognition and Learning

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-65

  Richter, Tobias ^a   Schmid, Sebastian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epistemic curiosity; Epistemic validation; Epistemological beliefs; Learning strategies; Self regulated learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649274277     PISSN: 15561623     EISSN: 15561631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11409-009-9038-4     Document Type: Article

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