Productive group engagement in cognitive activity and metacognitive regulation during collaborative learning: can it explain differences in students’ conceptual understanding?

Metacognition and Learning

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 287-307

  Khosa, Deep K ^a   Volet, Simone E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Co regulation in learning; Cognitive activity; Collaborative learning; Learning engagement; Metacognitive regulation; Social regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939879796     PISSN: 15561623     EISSN: 15561631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11409-014-9117-z     Document Type: Article

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