Metacognitive monitoring in university classes: Anticipating a graded vs. a pass-fail test affects monitoring accuracy

Metacognition and Learning

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 121-143

  Barenberg, Jonathan ^a   Dutke, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grading; Learning; Metacognitive monitoring; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879956752     PISSN: 15561623     EISSN: 15561631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11409-013-9098-3     Document Type: Article

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