Self-regulated learning: Beliefs, techniques, and illusions

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 417-444

  Bjork, Robert A ^a   Dunlosky, John ^b   Kornell, Nate ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

illusions of comprehension; judgments of learning; learning from errors; learning versus performance; metacognition; studying

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872455026     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: 15452085     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-113011-143823     Document Type: Review

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