The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of self-regulated learning strategies on task performance and learner's motivation in web-based instruction. In order to draw the instructional design principles and strategies which support and pro...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of self-regulated learning strategies on task performance and learner's motivation in web-based instruction. In order to draw the instructional design principles and strategies which support and promote the use of self-regulated learning strategy(SRLS) in web based instruction, many related literatures were reviewed. Then to identify the effectiveness of the suggested strategies for promoting self-regulated learning ability, web-based learning program which would reflect the suggested strategies were needed and experimented.
The questions of the research were proposed as follows:
1. Is there a significant difference in task performance between SRLS and non-SRLS?
2. Is there a significant difference in learner's motivation between SRLS and non-SRLS?
To answer these questions, the program of self-regulated learning strategy was developed and provided for 14 days to the 66 participants who are students in university. The participants are randomly assigned into two groups, with 33 undergraduate students in each group. To investigate the equality between two groups, test of prior knowledge were done before experiment. Results of test, there was no significant difference in prior knowledge test score between groups. Each group was provided with two web-based program which were SRLS and non-SRLS. Dependent variables were task performance and self-regulatory motivation on posttest. The data were collected from each participant's scores from essay and an 37-item self-regulatory motivation questionnaire. After all data were generated, group scores on dependent variables were analyzed based on t-test to test the significance of the difference between group means.
The results of the research were summarized as follows;
1. There is a significant difference in learner' task performance between SRLS and non-SRLS in web based instruction(t=4.61, p<.001).
2. There is a significant difference in learner's motivation between SRLS and non-SRLS in web based instruction(t=4.57, p<.001).
The study findings strongly support the fact that student's task performance and motivation should be promoted through self-regulated learning components in which the design principles and strategies to promote learner's self-regulated learning are embedded. The study findings also suggest that instruction should be appropriately developed by embedded effective design strategies to support learner's self-regulation.
Also this study shows that self-regulated learning strategies are primary variables on task performance and motivation. In particular, these results indicate that self-regulated learning strategy has a significant effect on the performance of task and the promotion of the learner's motivation.
In conclusion, this research suggests some important implications in web-based instruction; If self-regulated learning strategy is properly used in various web-based learning situations, we may expect and produce far better learning outcome. Also we assume that the effect will be greater in the program of self-regulated learning strategy. Especially web-based program embedding self-regulated learning strategy can be used for learners whose self-regulated skills are low.
However this research has been focused on the effects of metacognitive strategies among the various self-regulated learning strategy domains on task performance and motivation in web based instruction. Obviously, more research is needed to investigate self-regulated learning both from quantitative and qualitative inquiries in web-based instruction.