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Technology, Knowledge and Learning

, Volume 21, Issue 2, pp 243–253 | Cite as

The Development of a Self-regulation in a Collaborative Context Scale

  • Victor Law
  • Xun Ge
  • Deniz Eseryel
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Abstract

Self-regulation has been shown as a critical factor in learning in a regular classroom environment (e.g. Wolters and Pintrich in Instr Sci 26(1):27–47, 1998. doi: 10.1023/A:1003035929216). However, little research has been conducted to understand self-regulation in the context of collaboration (Dinsmore et al. in Educ Psychol Rev 20(4):391–409, 2008. doi: 10.1007/s10648-008-9083-6). Recently, researchers have been exploring how learners regulate themselves in collaborative problem-solving environments using qualitative methods (e.g. Chan in Metacogn Learn 7(1):63–73, 2012. doi: 10.1007/s11409-012-9086-z; Lajoie and Lu in Metacogn Learn, 2011. doi: 10.1007/s11409-011-9077-5). However, there is a lack of instruments to measure self-regulation in a collaborative context (SRCC). Therefore, the current study was intended to propose a new instrument to measure SRCC. One hundred and thirty-one college students from a Midwestern university completed a survey for SRCC after participating in a collaborative problem-solving task. The exploratory factor analysis yielded four factors: clarification and resolution, elaboration, refuting, and summarization. Three of the four factors were moderately correlated. The results contribute to our understanding of self-regulation in a collaborative context, which allows researchers to study this phenomenon quantitatively.

Keywords

Self-regulation Collaborative learning Ill-structured problem solving Exploratory factor analysis 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Program of Organization, Information, and Learning SciencesUniversity of New MexicoAlbuquerqueUSA
  2. 2.Department of Educational Psychology, Jeannine Rainbolt College of EducationUniversity of OklahomaNormanUSA
  3. 3.College of EducationNorth Carolina State UniversityRaleighUSA

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