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Bembenutty, Hefer – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
Self-regulation of learning occupies a fundamental place in postsecondary education. "Self-regulation of learning" refers to learners' beliefs about their capability to engage in appropriate actions, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in order to pursue valuable academic goals while self-monitoring and self-reflecting on their progress toward goal…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Self Control, Self Efficacy, Student Motivation
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Kitsantas, Anastasia; Dabbagh, Nada – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
Recent research shows that Web 2.0 technologies are not only shaping how college students connect to the world and each other but also are affecting their learning and performance. Additionally, some research evidence suggests that faculty can use social software tools to facilitate student self-regulated learning processes, such as goal setting,…
Descriptors: Internet, Information Technology, College Students, Learning
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Svinicki, Marilla D. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2010
In 1995 when "New Directions" issue No. 63, "Understanding Self-Regulated Learning," was published, the issue editor, Paul Pintrich, was one of the leaders in studying how college students learn and what helps or hinders them during the process. His contributions to the field have been tremendous and very significant both theoretically and…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods
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Bembenutty, Hefer – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
This chapter highlights the major contributions of this volume on self-regulation of learning and provides new directions for cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work that could serve to facilitate self-regulation of learning in postsecondary education. "Self-regulation of learning" refers to learners' beliefs about their ability to engage in…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Learning, Self Control, Self Efficacy
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Weinstein, Gerald; Obear, Kathy – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1992
Handling intergroup bias issues in the college classroom may stimulate teacher anxiety but also may provide opportunities for self-understanding. Common anxieties concern confronting one's own cultural identity/attitudes, responding to biased comments, doubts about one's own competence, need for learner approval, and handling intense emotions.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attitude Change, Change Strategies, College Faculty
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Trawick, LaVergne; Corno, Lyn – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1995
Research suggests urban community college students have ineffective study approaches and habits. A program teaching how to regulate behavior, cognition, and affect can be an important resource. One such program helps students monitor and control external and internal aspects of the learning environment, task and setting, others in the task…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Educational Environment, Higher Education