Metacognitive monitoring and control in elementary school children: Their interrelations and their role for test performance

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages 141-149

  Roebers, Claudia M ^a   Krebs, Saskia S ^a   Roderer, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Achievement; Control; Elementary school children; Mastery motivation; Metacognition; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891488147     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.12.003     Document Type: Article

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