The Association between Motivation, Affect, and Self-regulated Learning When Solving Problems.

ABSTRACT: Self-regulated learning (SRL) skills are essential for learning during school years, particularly in complex problem-solving domains, such as biology and math. Although a lot of studies have focused on the cognitive resources that are needed for learning to solve problems in a self-regulated way, affective and motivational resources have received much less research attention. The current study investigated the relation between affect (i.e., Positive Affect and Negative Affect Scale), motivation (i.e., autonomous and controlled motivation), mental effort, SRL skills, and problem-solving performance when learning to solve biology problems in a self-regulated online learning environment. In the learning phase, secondary education students studied video-modeling examples of how to solve heredi

SUBMITTER: Baars M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5550677 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature