Developing techniques for measuring and enhancing students? Cognitive and metacognitive skills

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages T3B2-T3B7

  Staats, Wayne J ^a   Dean, David ^b   Miles, Don ^a   Blum, Toni ^c   Lu, Ssu Yu ^a  

^a Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c STETSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOATS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY; COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAMS; COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; DOMAIN INDEPENDENTS; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; METACOGNITIVE SKILLS; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; TASK PERFORMANCE;

PERSONNEL TRAINING;

EID: 84945978096     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2003.1263323     Document Type: Conference Paper

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