Elementary school students' strategic learning: Does task-type matter?

Metacognition and Learning

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 113-136

  Malmberg, Jonna ^a   Järvelä, Sanna ^a   Kirschner, Paul A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

gStudy, ill and well structured tasks; Learning pattern; Learning strategy; Logfile traces; Self regulated learning; Task understanding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906086487     PISSN: 15561623     EISSN: 15561631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11409-013-9108-5     Document Type: Article

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