Enhancing Middle School Students’ Self-regulated Learning Ability: A Structured Diary Training Study

Self-Regulated Learning(SRL)is an important competence for student school learning and their future professional life.Training through dairy is a low cost and convenient way.With this study,we trained goal setting,time management,volition control,self-monitor and reflect,choose learning environment that based on four main SRL model(COPES model,Boekaerts’ s six constituent model,Pintrich’ SRL frame and Zimmerman’s three stage model)and the variables that pre-existing training study had.Aim of this study is to investigated the effect of the standardized diary training on self-regulation competence,and whether the effect will be different for high-level and low-level self-regulated learner.In a pretest-posttest control group design(the number of experimental group and control group are 55 and 54 respectively and they are all eighth graders),we compared two groups by computing analyses of variance with repeated measures,in addition,the learning dairy of experimental group are analyzed for linear trends by means of regression analysis.The results showed that:1.Training by standardized dairy can improved student’s goal setting,self-monitor and reflect,choose learning environment competence,but have no effect on time management and volition control competence.2.For high-level self-regulated learner,goal setting,self-monitor and reflect,choose learning environment competence can be enhanced,but for low-level self-regulated learner,only improved the competence of choose learning enviroment.