This study will be investigating how metacognitive and emotional self-regulation develops across gender, year group, and academic abilities. Self-regulation is a self-directed process that allows individuals to identify their cognitions and strategies needed to control and regulate learning. There is much debate as to whether or not different elements of SRL should be measured as one single construct or separate aspects of importance. As SRL is a process between reciprocally related cognitive and affective components they must be researched together and separately. This study will look at two aspects of SRL and try to identify variables that effect them and students learning. Typically research and models of SRL focus upon the interplay between
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It investigates variables in- depth leaving greater room for explanation from the participant. There are many benefits of using a mixed methods design, they both provide up-to-date information that could not be otherwise be obtained but with this comes extremely problematic consequences. Questionnaires reveal patterns among our population whilst interviews reveal the in-depth insights behind such patterns such as thoughts, actions and attitudes (Harris and Brown, 2010). Ultimately interviews add explanation and personal data to the study. It was considered more beneficial to use it as a secondary method rather than initial research method because of the participant sample and nature of the study. It would be more beneficial to use a questionnaire first in order to identify what researchers could consider for more detailed follow up research. As this is a relatively new field, we must understand further the variables involved before we start to look for the details. By using interviews as a follow up method it would also act as an extra reliability and validity check whilst counterbalancing some of the limitations of a questionnaire. Firstly, it would allow trust to be built between the researcher and participants producing better data than if this was not established. Secondly, as only a follow-up interview will be …show more content…
The Questionnaire on self-regulation (Novak and Clayton, 2001) and The Modified child problem behaviour checklist(http://fasttrackproject.org/techrept/c/cbc/index.php ) are both a 13-item questionnaire that assesses the ability to regulate negative emotions and behaviour and to set and attain goals. Even though these questionnaires looked at areas of interest relevant to this study, it was too simplistic and broad. Due to the intended audience broad and simplistic items may not evoked clear and rich data as little context was provided. Searches also highlighted The Adolescent Self-Regulatory Inventory (Moilanen, 2007) which is a 36-item questionnaire with responses ranging from 1(not at all true for me) to 5 (really true for me), again this touched on both cognitive and socio-emotional elements of self-regulation, but not in as much detail as the study required. Subscales did not appear to relate to elements within self- regulation and questions did not provide sufficient context creating reliance upon individual interpretation. Alongside this, the reliability and validity for each of these questionnaires was not as high compared to questionnaires that focused on cognitive and socio-emotional self- regulation in adults
It investigates variables in- depth leaving greater room for explanation from the participant. There are many benefits of using a mixed methods design, they both provide up-to-date information that could not be otherwise be obtained but with this comes extremely problematic consequences. Questionnaires reveal patterns among our population whilst interviews reveal the in-depth insights behind such patterns such as thoughts, actions and attitudes (Harris and Brown, 2010). Ultimately interviews add explanation and personal data to the study. It was considered more beneficial to use it as a secondary method rather than initial research method because of the participant sample and nature of the study. It would be more beneficial to use a questionnaire first in order to identify what researchers could consider for more detailed follow up research. As this is a relatively new field, we must understand further the variables involved before we start to look for the details. By using interviews as a follow up method it would also act as an extra reliability and validity check whilst counterbalancing some of the limitations of a questionnaire. Firstly, it would allow trust to be built between the researcher and participants producing better data than if this was not established. Secondly, as only a follow-up interview will be …show more content…
The Questionnaire on self-regulation (Novak and Clayton, 2001) and The Modified child problem behaviour checklist(http://fasttrackproject.org/techrept/c/cbc/index.php ) are both a 13-item questionnaire that assesses the ability to regulate negative emotions and behaviour and to set and attain goals. Even though these questionnaires looked at areas of interest relevant to this study, it was too simplistic and broad. Due to the intended audience broad and simplistic items may not evoked clear and rich data as little context was provided. Searches also highlighted The Adolescent Self-Regulatory Inventory (Moilanen, 2007) which is a 36-item questionnaire with responses ranging from 1(not at all true for me) to 5 (really true for me), again this touched on both cognitive and socio-emotional elements of self-regulation, but not in as much detail as the study required. Subscales did not appear to relate to elements within self- regulation and questions did not provide sufficient context creating reliance upon individual interpretation. Alongside this, the reliability and validity for each of these questionnaires was not as high compared to questionnaires that focused on cognitive and socio-emotional self- regulation in adults