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Bookman, Jack – Primus, 1993
Studied the differences between metacognitive behaviors exhibited by (n=6) graduate students in mathematics and (n=9) freshman college students. Experts possessed and used schemas to solve problems, but schema use did not fully or adequately characterize expertise. Beliefs about cognition played a more important role than control of cognition. (23…
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