Multiple levels of metacognition and their elicitation through complex problem-solving tasks

Journal of Mathematical Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 377-396

  Kim, Young Rae ^a   Park, Mi Sun ^a   Moore, Tamara J ^a   Varma, Sashank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Definition building; Metacognition; Model eliciting activities; Operationalizing definitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879584878     PISSN: 07323123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2013.04.002     Document Type: Article

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