Promoting Student Success in Early College Credit Courses
Category: Student Learning
Instrument Overview
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Strengths
Strong reliability; validated with adults for assessing general self-regulation across everyday behaviors. Useful for examining relationships between self-regulation and behavioral or health-related outcomes.
Cautions
Limited validation with K–12 and college students; measures general self-regulation, not academic self-regulation or academic achievement.
The Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SRQ) is a 63-item self-report survey that measures general self-regulation, or a person’s ability to plan, carry out, monitor, and adjust behavior to achieve goals. The questionnaire was developed around a seven-step model of self-regulation, including receiving information, evaluating information, identifying options, planning, implementing plans, and assessing progress. Although the original model was developed in research on addictive behaviors, the SRQ is intended to measure general self-regulatory functioning.
The SRQ can be used in education research to examine self-regulation and its relationship to student behaviors and outcomes. The total score provides an overall measure of self-regulatory functioning. The original seven subscales are intended for research purposes and are not recommended for separate interpretation. The SRQ has been studied with college students and adults but was not developed specifically for school-age students. The developers do not recommend using it for clinical decision-making.
Organization
Topic
Collection Category(ies)
Content
Grades
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade,
Post secondary
Languages
English
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
63 items
Access and Use
Price
Free
Open Access
Yes
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Reliability
Test-retest reliability for the total SRQ score was high (r = .94, p < .0001). Internal consistency of the scale
was also quite high (α = .91)
Psychometric References
Neal, D. J., & Carey, K. B. (2005). A follow-up psychometric analysis of the self-regulation questionnaire. Psychology of addictive behaviors, 19(4), 414.
Item Type
Likert
