Completion of partially worked-out examples as a generation strategy for improving monitoring accuracy

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 395-406

  Baars, Martine ^a   Visser, Sandra ^a   Gog, Tamara van ^a   Bruin, Anique de ^b   Paas, Fred ^a,c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Completion problems; Judgments of learning; Monitoring accuracy; Problem solving; Worked examples

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884917429     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2013.09.001     Document Type: Article

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