Calibration Between Undergraduate Students' Prediction of and Actual Performance: The Role of Gender and Performance Attributions

Journal of Experimental Education

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 486-500

  Gutierrez, Antonio P ^a   Price, Addison F ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attributions; calibration; explanatory style; gender; metacognitive monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969194987     PISSN: 00220973     EISSN: 19400683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220973.2016.1180278     Document Type: Article

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