Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulated Learning Scale

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Instrument Overview

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Strengths

Strong reliability; validated with undergraduate students for assessing confidence in managing their own learning.

Cautions

Limited validation with elementary or secondary students and adult learners outside formal training; not established for evaluating whether an instructional intervention improves self-regulated learning.

The Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulated Learning Scale (SESRL) is a self-report measure of students’ confidence in their ability to use self-regulated learning strategies. It assesses beliefs about managing academic tasks, such as completing assignments, studying, and staying focused when learning becomes difficult.

The SESRL can be used in education research to examine students’ confidence in managing their own learning and how this relates to academic behaviors and achievemen

Organization

Topic
Student Learning
Collection(s): Self-Directed Learning
Collection Category(ies)
Applied Learning,
Metacognitive
Tags
College readiness

Content

Grades
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade,
Post secondary
Respondent
Student

Administration Information

Length
24 items

Access and Use

Use in Research

Gredler, M. E., & Garavalia, L. S. (2000). Students’ perceptions of their self-regulatory and other-directed study strategies: A factor analysis. Psychological Reports, 86(1), 102–108. https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.2000.86.1.102

Morris, D. R., Gredler, M. E., & Schwartz, L. S. (1998). The role of self-regulated learning in an industrial training environment. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Carroll, C. A., & Garavalia, L. S. (2002). Gender and racial differences in select determinants of student success. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 66(4), 382–387.

Psychometrics (additional guidance)

Reliability

.63–.84 (Cronbach’s alpha)

Psychometric References

Gredler, M. E., & Schwartz, L. S. (1997). Factorial structure of the Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulated Learning Scale. Psychological Reports, 81(1), 51–57. https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1997.81.1.51

Item Type
Likert