Metacognitive skills of the gifted from a cross-cultural perspective

Meta-Cognition: A Recent Review of Research, Theory and Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3-43

  Helms Lorenz, Michelle ^a   Jacobse, Annemieke Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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