Investigating how college students' task definitions and plans relate to self-regulated learning processing and understanding of a complex science topic

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 307-320

  Greene, Jeffrey A ^a   Hutchison, Leigh Anna ^a   Costa, Lara Jeane ^a   Crompton, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Plans; Science education; Self regulated learning; Task definition; Think aloud protocols

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865626364     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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