Self-regulation of secondary school students: self-assessments are inaccurate and insufficiently used for learning-task selection

Instructional Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 357-381

  Nugteren, Michelle L ^a,c   Jarodzka, Halszka ^a,b   Kester, Liesbeth ^a,c   Van Merriënboer, Jeroen J G ^a,d  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Judgments of learning; Mental effort; Self assessment; Task selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 85040864983     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: 15731952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-018-9448-2     Document Type: Article

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