Research Question:
1) How does a student's ability to regulate his or herself in nightly homework affect the student's performance and comprehension in mathematics and what can be done to improve a student's ability to self-regulate?
Explanation:
Self-regulation is when a student thinks reflects on the way he/she learns, is motivated, and takes responsibility for his/her learning. I am particularly interested in how student's view the homework they receive. For example, some students need more homework problems than others to grasp a concept. Do student's know when they have done enough homework to have an understanding of what they have learned? There has been lots of research done on the relationship between self-regulation and school performance, so I would also like to see what kinds of activities improve students' abilities to self-regulate. These activities include individually logging grades and setting performance goals. I will try and measure how self-regulation affects performance, as well as seeing if an improved ability to self-regulate leads to improved performance.
I really like this topic. What I was wondering is how you will know what students think about their homework and how you will be able to measure self-regulation. Perhaps I am thinking to quantitatively. I was also wondering if you will take any direct measures to specifically improve self-regulation in homework or just self-regulation in general. If you are going to try to improve homework self-regulation, how? Also, will you be doing interviews with students or will it be more of a survey format? Good Luck!
ReplyDeleteGood ideas and good questions. This is an important topic, particularly if you can find ways to successfully teach/encourage self regulation. I am hoping that the related research will give you some direction there.
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