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Investigating Self-Regulation and Motivation: Historical Background, Methodological Developments, and Future Prospects

Graduate Center of the City University of New York

The topic of how students become self-regulated as learners has attracted researchers for decades. Initial attempts to measure self-regulated learning (SRL) using questionnaires and interviews were successful in demonstrating significant predictions of students’ academic outcomes. The present article describes the second wave of research, which has involved the development of online measures of self-regulatory processes and motivational feelings or beliefs regarding learning in authentic contexts. These innovative methods include computer traces, think-aloud protocols, diaries of studying, direct observation, and microanalyses. Although still in the formative stage of development, these online measures are providing valuable new information regarding the causal impact of SRL processes as well as raising new questions for future study.

Key Words: self-regulated learning (SRL) • motivation and SRL • event measures of SRL • cyclical analyses of SRL

American Educational Research Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1, 166-183 (2008)
DOI: 10.3102/0002831207312909


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