Accounting students' metacognition: The association of performance, calibration error, and mindset

Issues in Accounting Education

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 707-732

  Ravenscroft, Susan P ^a   Waymire, Tammy R ^b   West, Timothy D ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Accounting profession; Calibration error; Metacognition; Mindset

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865357663     PISSN: 07393172     EISSN: 15587983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/iace-50148     Document Type: Article

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