Self-Regulated Learning(SRL) ability is something that adults are supposed to have. However, most adult learners encounter difficulties in regulating and managing learning. Such lack of SRL ability stems from the fact that SRL is not learned and devel...
Self-Regulated Learning(SRL) ability is something that adults are supposed to have. However, most adult learners encounter difficulties in regulating and managing learning. Such lack of SRL ability stems from the fact that SRL is not learned and developed naturally but with instruction and training. Therefore, endowing a student with the facilitating strategy to improve SRL ability so that he/she can have a chance to learn it will be of great help. This study is to investigate the effects of SRL facilitating strategy in online project-based learning environment. Research questions are: 1) What is the effect of self-regulated learning strategy on student`s self-regulated learning ability? 2) What is the relationship between self-regulated learning ability and the quality of the project output? Participants are fifty university students. The eleven strategies are adopted for this study to apply to online project based learning. The results of the study are as follows: First, significant difference between before and after applying self-regulated learning strategies is identified in the students` self-regulated learning ability based on all 81 MSLQ items(t =4.60, df =49, p <.05). Based on 59 items related to self-regulated learning strategy used in this study, the improvement of participants` self-regulated learning ability was also observed(t =-3.67, df =49, p <.05). And the rest 22 items not related to self-regulated learning strategy used in this study, the improvement of participants` self-regulated learning ability was also observed(t =-4.54, df =49, p <.05). These significant differences on t-test show clear evidences of self-regulated learning strategy`s impact on self-regulated learning ability. Second, in analyzing the relationship between self-regulated learning ability and the output of the project, non-significant correlation has been identified(r =.26, p > .05). But the correlation between exam scores and self-regulated learning ability has been observed(r =.32, p <.05).