Clarifying the Role of Self-Efficacy and Metacognition as Predictors of Performance: Construct Development and Test

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 37, Issue , 2006, Pages 125-132

  Moores, Trevor T ^a   Cha Jan, Jerry Chang ^a   Smith, Deborah K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs); Declarative Knowledge; Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs); Metacognition; Procedural Knowledge; Self Efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989240069     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1161345.1161360     Document Type: Article

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