Group Differences in Self-Regulation Behaviors: A Lag-Sequential Analysis

• In Event: Teachers' Perceptions and Students' Experiences in Using Technology at Home and School

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate self-regulating behaviors between high- and low-performing students in a mobile learning environment. A total of 83 elementary schoolers were recruited to participate in the study. The results of Lag-sequential analysis yielded two findings. First, all young learners, regardless of their performance, demonstrated human agency and self-regulation in the mobile learning environment, moving smoothly from lower to higher levels of knowledge construction. Second, the high-performing group attained a higher level of knowledge construction through negotiation of meaning than the low-performing group did.

Authors

• Zhong Sun, Capital Normal University

• Chin-Hsi Lin, The University of Hong Kong

• Kaiyue Lv, Capital Normal University

• Yining Zhang, Tsinghua University

• Yuxi Wen, Vanderbilt University