SRL 101
What do the letters SRL stand for?
Self-regulated learning
A student thinks about how well she did after receiving her exam
Self-reflection
A student asks, "Did I meet my goal?"
Self-evaluation
The forethought phase refers to processes and beliefs that occur ________ efforts to learn."
Is Zimmerman's model the only SRL model used in research?
No
What are the three phases of Zimmerman's model of SRL?
Forethought, performance, and self-reflection
During a practice session, a student records how many questions he gets correct.
Performance
A student enjoys learning about psychology simply because she finds the subject interesting.
Interest/value
Metacognition is often described as "thinking about your own ________."
Are SRL processes teachable?
True or False: SRL only happens while you are actually studying.
False
While studying, a student realizes he has been staring at the same paragraph for ten minutes without understanding it.
Performance
A student decides to study in the library because she expects fewer distractions.
Attention Focusing
SRL is described as ________ because the outcome of one cycle influences the next cycle.
Cyclical
Why is "I need to study harder" sometimes an incomplete response to poor performance?
It doesn't target specific SRL processes in the forethought, performance, or self-reflection phase.
Why is SRL described as "cyclical"?
What happens in one phase can influence the other phases in a bidirectional relationship.
A student creates a plan to break a large assignment into an introduction, body, and conclusion, with smaller goals for each section.
Forethought
A student thinks, "I can definitely learn this."
Self-efficacy
Self-regulated learners are ________ in their efforts to learn.
Proactive
They neglect high quality forethought
A student makes a detailed study schedule but never follows it. Is this evidence of successful SRL? Why or why not?
No, because this only covers the forethought phase, and effective SRL also includes the performance and self-reflection phases.
A student receives a poor grade and responds, "I'm dropping the class because I'm obviously not capable of doing this."
Self-reflection
A student decides that her low grade happened because she used an ineffective study strategy.
Causal Attribution
An SRL expert doesn't necessarily study more; they study more ________.
Effectively or Strategically
A student moves their phone to another room while studying. What are they regulating?
Their Environment