Metacognition, affect, and conceptual difficulty

Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 48-69

  Efklides, Anastasia ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203966273     Document Type: Chapter

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