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Peer reviewedSternberg, Robert J. – Instructional Science, 1998
Argues primarily that metacognition is an important part of human abilities, which are, in turn, forms of developing expertise. If the goal is to understand the basis of individual differences in student academic success, metacognition needs to be understood as representing part of the abilities that lead to student expertise, but only as part.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences
