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In this paper, we describe an undergraduate educational psychology course that utilizes self-regulated learning as the organizing principle. The course aims to facilitate students' development in self-regulated learning and to promote students' understanding of how to embed instruction for self-regulated learning strategies into classroom teaching. In the first section of the paper, we develop the rationale for this position and identify underlying assumptions we believe should guide the development and implementation of such a program. In the second section of the paper, we demonstrate how we have incorporated these assumptions in a basic educational psychology course.
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Du Bois, N.F., Staley, R.K. A Self-Regulated Learning Approach to Teaching Educational Psychology. Educational Psychology Review 9, 171–197 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024792529797
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