Developmental progression in performance evaluations: Effects of children's cue-utilization and self-protection

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 51, Issue , 2017, Pages 47-60

  van Loon, Mariëtte ^a   Destan, Nesrin ^a   Spiess, Manuela A ^a   de Bruin, Anique ^b   Roebers, Claudia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Confidence judgments; Development; Overconfidence; Self reward

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007500564     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2016.11.011     Document Type: Article

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