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- Vol 4 RE: Chapters 1, 2
self-regulated learningsocial cognitive theoryself-efficacyself-observationself-judgementself-reactionreciprocal causationJournal article Evidence summaryAt a glance
Zimmerman presents academic self-regulation as a dynamic interaction among personal beliefs, behaviour, and environment rather than a fixed learner trait. Within this social-cognitive account, students regulate learning through self-observation, self-judgement, and self-reaction.
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They monitor aspects of performance, compare them with goals or standards, and respond in ways that can sustain or alter subsequent effort and strategy use. Self-efficacy is central because beliefs about capability influence goal choice, persistence, monitoring, and reactions to results. Regulation is reciprocally caused: students shape study environments and behaviours, while feedback from those environments changes beliefs and later action. The article integrates theory and existing evidence; it is not a single classroom experiment establishing one intervention’s effect. It also avoids equating self-regulation with solitary learning, because models, feedback, rewards, and social support contribute to its development.
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Educationally, teachers can make goals and criteria explicit, model strategic processes, support accurate monitoring, provide informative feedback, and help learners interpret errors as information for adaptation. Assessment should attend to processes and changing contexts, not infer a stable capacity solely from an outcome score or retrospective questionnaire.
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