Metacognition and teaching higher order thinking (HOT) in science education: Students' learning, teachers' knowledge and instructional practices

The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Teaching Thinking

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 229-242

  Zohar, Anat ^a   Barzilai, Sarit ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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