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ERIC Number: EJ517166
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
Does a General Monitoring Skill Exist?
Schraw, Gregory; And Others
Journal of Educational Psychology, v87 n3 p433-44 Sep 1995
Two experiments involving 269 college students investigated whether monitoring is better characterized as a domain-specific or a domain-general activity. Findings lend qualified support to the domain-general hypothesis, which states that monitoring within a specific domain is governed by general metacognitive processes in addition to domain-specific knowledge. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Metacognition, Performance, Skills
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Confidence; Domain Knowledge; Monitoring