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Amairani Isabel Aragón Wilson; Martha Alejandrina Zavala Guirado; Isolina González Castro; Claudia Selene Tapia Ruelas – International Education Studies, 2025
The present study tested the relationship between digital literacy skills and autonomous learning strategies in high school students in southern Sonora to see their impact on the training processes implied by the digital age. A quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional study of correlational scope was conducted with 365 secondary school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Digital Literacy, Independent Study
Olli Aksela; Joni Lämsä; Sanna Järvelä – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2025
Studying in digital learning environments highlights the skills needed to regulate one's own learning. In youth, students are acquiring and developing these skills, but for many students, effectively self-regulating their learning is challenging. To design support in this regard, an in depth understanding of how and why their self-regulated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 7, Learning Strategies
Thabang Donald Mokoena; Gideon Petrus van Tonder – International Journal of Educational Management, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to determine the impact of mentorship on the development of self-directedness among beginner teachers in their initial years of teaching. Design/methodology/approach: The researcher adopted a positivist paradigm to explore the situation of concern. Quantitative research was conducted, involving the collection and analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Professional Autonomy, Mentors
Felicitas Biwer; Gabriel Taban; Anique de Bruin – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2025
While decades of research from cognitive psychology provided insight into effective learning strategies for long-term learning, there is a discrepancy between what research recommends and what students do. We investigated first-year engineering students' knowledge and use of learning strategies, and how they experience and adapt to learning…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Learning Strategies, Independent Study, College Freshmen
Cao-Tuong Dinh; Hoang-Yen Phuong – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2024
The ultimate goals of education and training are the development of learners' learning outcomes. The prospect of achieving high academic results should function as a driving force for students to be engaged in learning. Recognition of the factors affecting their learning satisfaction should facilitate their learning process, especially in online…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, MOOCs, Student Characteristics
Qadach, Mowafaq; Schechter, Chen; Da'as, Rima'a – International Journal of Educational Management, 2022
Purpose; This study explores a conceptual framework that addresses a school principal's self-regulated learning (SPSRL) as well as possible avenues for future conceptualization of, and research into this issue. Design/methodology/approach: The conceptual framework of SPSRL is based on an extensive literature review of the research on student's and…
Descriptors: Principals, Independent Study, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Learning Strategies
Songül Karabatak; Muslim Alanoglu; Hongwei Yang; Jian Su – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2025
The objective of this study is to assess students' perceptions of self-directed learning (SDL) skills in online learning using the Turkish version of the Self-Directed Online Learning Scale (SDOLS-T). To achieve this objective, the original SDOLS in English was translated into Turkish using the back-translation method. Subsequently, two separate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Independent Study, Electronic Learning, Translation
Alvi, Effat; Gillies, Robyn M. – Educational Review, 2023
There is currently widespread interest in how to promote self-regulated learning (SRL) among young learners to prepare the stage for success in later years. Yet, there is little research that explores primary school students' perspectives and strategies which are known to directly influence their SRL engagement. We conducted semi-structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Independent Study, Self Management, Elementary School Students
Tabea Augner; Carsten C. Schermuly; Franziska Jungmann – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: Today's unpredictable and fast-changing work environment challenges researchers and organizations to rethink learning. In contrast to traditional learning designs, new learning frameworks such as agile learning are more learner centered, integrated into the workplace and socially shaped. The purpose of this study is to examine Working Out…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Workplace Learning, Personal Autonomy
Alfred F. Tsikati; Ncobile S. Dlamini – NACTA Journal, 2023
Self-regulation is essential to the learning process as it enhance student performance. However, there is very little research on the self-regulatory strategies employed by students. Therefore, this study sought to identify self-regulatory learning strategies used by senior secondary agriculture students. The study used a descriptive survey…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Agricultural Education, Independent Study, Learning Strategies
Ji Qi; Barry Lee Reynolds; Xiaoke Bai – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
This extension study investigates the relationship between self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies and first language (L1) Chinese and second language (L2) English reading test performance among 190 primary six students in mainland China, building upon the findings by Tse et al. (2022). Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the acceptable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Independent Study, Reading Comprehension
Zhu, Meina; Bonk, Curtis J.; Berri, Sarah – Online Learning, 2022
Given the increasing number of learners in massive open online courses (MOOCs), students' self-directed learning (SDL) skills are necessary for their success. The purpose of this study was to explore learners' motivation for enrolling in MOOCs and their SDL strategies, as well as instructional elements that support SDL from learners' perspectives.…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Independent Study, Student Motivation, Learning Strategies
Karatas, Kasim – International Journal of Self-Directed Learning, 2022
This study investigated the relationship between motivation and academic self-efficacy of teacher candidates during the COVID-19 pandemic period. In addition, the mediating role of self-directed learning skills was also explored. In this study that is based on a correlational design, data were collected from 992 teacher candidates studying in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Attitudes, Self Efficacy
Dart, Sarah; Lim, James B. P. – Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 2023
Engineering educators naturally gravitate toward visual means for communicating concepts that would otherwise be extremely difficult to convey using words and numbers alone. With the emergence of three-dimensional (3D) printing as an accessible and cost-effective technology, it is now possible to develop customized models that enable students to…
Descriptors: College Students, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries, Computer Peripherals
Chunxiao Zhang; Bo-Wah Leung – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
The primary purpose of the study was to explore the current situation of Chinese music majors' self-regulated learning (SRL) in the individual music practice context. Two undergraduate piano players' music practice profiles were collected using SRL microanalysis protocols and follow-up semi-structured interviews. The results have shown: (1) there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Music, Undergraduate Students

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