Multi-domain, multi-method measures of metacognitive activity: What is all the fuss about metacognition... indeed?

Research Papers in Education

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 597-627

  Meijer, Joost ^a   Veenman, Marcel V J ^b   van Hout Wolters, Bernadette ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

history; intelligence; learning; metacognition; physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867555576     PISSN: 02671522     EISSN: 14701146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02671522.2010.550011     Document Type: Article

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