Poster #9 - Self-Regulation in Multiple Text Use

• In Event: 77.059 - MTCC Tuesday Poster Session 18
  In Poster Session: 77.059-1 - Exploring Motivational Constructs in Authentic Academic Settings

Abstract

This study aims to examine the role of self-regulation in multiple text use, particularly how students make decisions about cessation during multiple text use. After accessing a text from a digital library, students were asked to rate it on a variety of regulatory dimensions (e.g., helpfulness). Survival analysis, a methodological approach from biostatistics was used. While students’ ratings of texts’ relevance and helpfulness were found to be associated with cessation decisions, ratings of texts’ ease of understanding were found to be associated with task performance. The role of students’ regulatory ratings during multiple text use are discussed as reflecting students’ monitoring of task, text, and learner-related factors during multiple text task completion

Authors

• Hye Yeon Lee, The Pennsylvania State University

• Alexandra List, The Pennsylvania State University