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Assessment and Relationships of Conditional Motivational Regulation Strategy Knowledge as an Aspect of Undergraduates' Self-regulated Learning Competencies

Published Online:August 26, 2019https://doi.org/10.1024/1010-0652/a000237

Abstract

Abstract. For learners, motivational regulation represents a daily challenge in terms of initiating, increasing and maintaining motivation. Crucial here is conditional knowledge about which motivational regulation strategies are appropriate for which specific motivational problems. This paper addresses the relationships between this type of strategy knowledge and regulatory effectiveness and characteristics of learning behavior. In a sample of 188 undergraduates, this strategy knowledge – assessed with a newly developed Situational Judgement Test – showed moderately positive correlations with motivational regulation on the behavioral level. Moreover, it was positively related to the effectiveness of motivational regulation and effort. Hence, conditional motivational regulation strategy knowledge is relevant and contributes to an extended understanding of motivational regulation in the higher education context.


Erfassung und Zusammenhänge konditionalen Strategiewissens zur Motivationsregulation als Aspekt der Kompetenzen zum Selbstregulierten Lernen von Studierenden

Zusammenfassung. Für Lernende ist Motivationsregulation, im Sinne der Initiierung, Steigerung und Aufrechterhaltung der Motivation eine alltägliche Herausforderung. Fundamental dafür ist das konditionale Wissen darüber, welche Motivationsregulationsstrategien bei welchen konkreten Regulationsanlässen funktional sind. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht Zusammenhänge dieser Art des Strategiewissens mit Regulationserfolg und Merkmalen des Lernverhaltens. Anhand einer Stichprobe von 188 Studierenden konnte gezeigt werden, dass dieses Strategiewissen – erfasst mittels eines neu konstruierten Situational Judgement Tests – moderat positiv mit Motivationsregulation auf Verhaltensebene, mit Regulationserfolg und mit Anstrengung korreliert. Somit ist konditionales Strategiewissen zur Motivationsregulation von Relevanz und leistet einen Beitrag zum erweiterten Verständnis von Motivationsregulation im Hochschulkontext.

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