Developing Self-Regulated Learners: Beyond Achievement to Self-Efficacy

by Barry J. Zimmerman, Sebastian Bonner, Robert Kovach

Every teacher would like to have a classroom full of smart learners. This accessible guide for middle school and high school teachers will show the reader how, through self-regulatory training and development, the classroom can be converted into a learning academy full of motivated, empowered students. Teachers will learn to help students develop five essential study skills as part of their regular classroom assignments: time planning and management, text comprehension and summarisation, classroom note-taking, test anticipation and preparation, and writing. Five-week curricula models are presented for each skill area.

Genres: Psychology, Education

147 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 1996

About the author

Barry J. Zimmerman was an American educational researcher at the City University of New York, where he held the title Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology. He has written scholarly publications on learning and motivation, many describing his research and theories on self-regulated learning. In 2011, Zimmerman was awarded the E.L. Thorndike Career Achievement award by the American Psychological Association's Division of Educational Psychology.