1. Academic Self-Regulation
Chapter 1
Academic Self-Regulation
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2. Agenda Learning Objectives What Is Academic Self-Regulation?
Am I Self-Regulated?
Am I Ready to Change?
Discussion
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3. Learning Objectives
Understand the 6 components of academic self- regulation.
Evaluate the importance of academic self-regulation in the college setting and its impact on your success in college.
Analyze your strengths and challenges as a self-regulated learner.
Determine the changes you will need to make to become more self-regulated and where you are in the change process.
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4. Why Are Some Students Less Successful Learners?
They hold faulty beliefs about their ability, learning, and motivation.
They are unaware of their ineffective learning behavior.
They fail to sustain effective learning and motivational strategies.
They are not ready to change their learning and study behavior.
They lack awareness and control of their thinking.
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5. What Is Academic Self-Regulation?
Academic Self-Regulation: The strategies students use to control the factors influencing their learning.
Self-regulated learners:
use appropriate strategies to manage motivation, behavior, and learning;
control the factors influencing their learning;
establish optimum conditions for learning;
remove obstacles that interfere with their learning;
find a way to learn.
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6. 6 Components of Self-Regulation
Motivation (Why?)
Methods of Learning (How?)
Use of Time (When?)
Physical Environment (Where?)
Social Environment (With whom?)
Monitoring Performance (What?)
The 6 components of SR answer the basic questions:
Motivation: Why are we engaging in learning?
Methods of learning: How are we engaging in learning?
Use of Time: When are we engaging in learning?
Physical Environment: Where are we learning?
Social Environment: With whom are we learning?
Monitoring Performance: What are the outcomes of our learning?
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7. Motivation Without goals, one does not have motivation.
The most successful people know how to motivate themselves when they do not feel like performing a task.
Examples of self-motivating techniques:
goal setting
positive self-talk.
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8. Methods of Learning
Learning strategies: the methods students use to acquire information (basically, your toolkit).
Many students believe they are not successful owing to ability, but, in reality, they have never been properly taught how to learn.
Different tasks (i.e., essay exams, objective exams, etc.) require different study strategies in order to maximize learning.
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9. Use of Time Time-management is a skill that can be developed.
Students with better time-management skills tend to have higher GPAs.
Students with poorer time-management skills are often preoccupied with urgent, last- minute tasks.
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10. Physical & Social Environment
Regulation of the Physical & Social Environment: the ability of learners to restructure their physical and social environments to meet their needs.
High achievers reported greater use of:
environmental restructuring
help-seeking.
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11. Monitoring Performance
Monitoring one’s own performance allows learners to:
control one’s performance;
become one’s own coach or mentor;
critique one’s own performance;
make the necessary changes to meet goals.
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12. Why is academic self-regulation important in college?
There are more distractions.
Work is harder and there is more of it.
There is more competition in the classroom, in the lab, on the field, in the studio.
Students are expected to be self-motivated.
There are no study guides.
Instructors do not guide your learning.
Students are on their own.
Teacher-directed
Student-directed
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13. Are these statements typical of you always, sometimes, or never?
“I can self-motivate when I need to.”
“I use different study methods for different types of assignments and tests.”
“I plan how to use my time.”
“I modify or change my study environment so I can concentrate.”
“I seek help when I need it.”
“I evaluate my work to determine my progress toward meeting personal and academic goals.”
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14. How Can I Change My Behavior?
Self-Observation & Evaluation
Goal Setting & Monitoring Strategic Planning
Strategic Implementation & Monitoring
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1. Self-observation and Evaluation
2. Goal Setting and Strategic Planning
3. Strategy-Implementation and Monitoring
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15. How Does Self-Regulation Occur in an Academic Context?
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16. Discussion Questions
Why is it important to be academically self-regulated?
What behaviors or beliefs do you currently hold that are preventing you from being self-regulated?
What are some new challenges you have encountered as a college student?
Thinking about the 6 components of self-regulation, which are most challenging for you? What changes are you prepared to make?
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17. Preview of Chapter 2: Understanding Motivation
After studying Chapter 2 you will be able to:
identify the factors that influence motivation;
assess your beliefs and perceptions to account for your own motivation.
Giving students a preview of the next unit/chapter is a great way to get them engaged in learning and support them in self-regulating.
NOTE: If you are using this book out of order (as recommended), you can find the preview of other chapters at the end of the PowerPoint for the previous chapter.
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