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DOI: 10.4324/9781410601032-5
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Theories of Self-Regulated Learning and Academic Achievement: An Overview and Analysis

Barry J. Zimmerman

Self-regulated learning
Psychology
Learning theory
2013
Theory and research on self-regulated academic learning emerged in the mid1980s to address the question of how students become masters of their own learning processes. Neither a mental ability nor an academic performance skill, self-regulation refers instead to the self-directive process through which learners transform their mental abilities into task-related academic skills. This approach views learning as an activity that students do for themselves in a proactive way, rather than as a covert event that happens to them reactively as a result of teaching experiences. Self-regulated learning (SRL) theory and research are not limited to asocial forms of education, such as discovery learning, self-education through reading, studying, programmed instruction, or computer-assisted instruction, but can include social forms of learning such as modeling, guidance, and feedback from peers, coaches, and teachers. The key issue defining learning as self-regulated is not whether it is socially isolated, but rather whether the learner displays personal initiative, perseverance, and adaptive skill in pursuing it. In this initial chapter, I discuss self-regulation theories as a distinctive approach to academic learning and instruction historically and then identify their common features. Finally, I briefly introduce and compare seven prominent theoretical perspectives on self-regulated learning-operant, phenomenological, information processing, social cognitive, volitional, Vygotskian, and cognitive constructivist approaches-in terms of those common features. In the chapters that follow, each theoretical perspective is discussed at length by prominent researchers who have used it to guide their research and instruction.
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