%0 Journal Article
%T Self-Regulation of Middle School Students With Learning Disabilities During a Complex Project-Based Science Activity | Berkeley | Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology | CCSE
%A Amanda Colburn
%A Anna Larsen
%A Robert Yin
%A Sheri Berkeley
%J Home | Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology | CCSE
%D 2019
%R 10.5539/jedp.v9n2p1
%X Self-regulation is widely considered important for the academic success of students. Yet, there is limited research about how students self-regulate during complex, long-term learning tasks, such as the project-based learning activities that commonly occur as part of science classroom instruction. There is also less known about how atypical learners, including students with learning disabilities (LD), self-regulate academic tasks. The current multiple case study explores these gaps in the research base through an investigation of how middle school students with language-based LDs self-regulated their learning during a complex, science-based project¡ªcreation of computerized serious educational games (SEG) about renewable energy sources. Findings from the current study suggest that there is a relationship between attributions that students with LD make for their performance and their self-efficacy for learning, but only under specific conditions. The role of this relationship seems to diminish when a student poorly calibrates perception of ability relative to actual performance and when a student perceives the cost of effort to outweigh the benefit.
%U http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jedp/article/view/0/39825