Self Regulation Attribute

This week we would like to share a paper, which was just published just published last week by Dr. Darren Iwamoto and his team, entitled Self-Regulated Learning as a Critical Attribute for Successful Teaching and Learning in the Open Access International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. I was fortunate to be asked to be part of this research as I have explored the concept of self-regulation in graduate engineering students almost two decades ago, publishing findings that indicated at that level, most students had found ways to basically teach themselves.

The purpose of this research was to assess the level of student self-regulation skills using the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire. Through the analysis, students reported having high expectations for themselves. However, they were found to not use cognitive learning skills and self-regulation practices consistently, which suggests a low level of self-regulation. Subsequently, they exhibited maladaptive and counterproductive behaviors like procrastination and disengagement.