Characteristics and Uses of SRL Microanalysis across Diverse Contexts, Tasks, and Populations: A Systematic Review

A multilevel framework for assessing self‐regulated learning in school contexts: Innovations, challenges, and future directions

“…Given that greater specificity in the SRL assessment process can enhance school-based practitioners' ability to link SRL assessment data to intervention planning, the current paper expands and updates the original SREP diagnostic model in several ways. In addition to providing more detailed information about the operation and sequence of the SREP assessment process, the current paper provides evidence supporting the utility and psychometric rigor of specific tools emphasized within the SREP diagnostic framework (e.g., self-report questionnaires, teacher rating scales, SRL microanalysis, think-aloud protocols; Cleary et al, 2021;Tise et al, 2019). This paper also serves as a roadmap that school psychologists can use to increase the frequency and quality of school-based SRL assessments.…”

“…In short, both SRL aptitude and event measures can serve as unique and significant predictors of important student outcomes. They also overlap conceptually to some degree and there is strong evidence to support the validity of SRL inferences from scores generated from measures within both the aptitude and event categories (see next section; Cleary et al, 2021; Follmer & Sperling, 2016; Holland et al, 2018). Thus, it is reasonable to conclude that while event and aptitude measure appear to capture different levels or dimensions of the SRL construct, they collectively are able to provide greater coverage of SRL than the exclusive use or reliance on any single approach.…”

“…To optimally facilitate and encourage the use of this innovative and novel assessment practice, school psychologists need access to existing protocols and relevant coding schemes. One viable option is the creation of an open-access, web-based library that houses the increasing number of existing microanalytic protocols (see Cleary et al, 2021). Researchers using SRL microanalysis can populate this web-based library with example protocols targeting different academic activities or situations (e.g., studying, writing an essay, reading textbooks).…”

“…Thus, event measures are context‐ and situation‐specific assessment tools administered as students engage in a particular learning activity. Frequently used event measures include SRL microanalysis, direct observations, think‐aloud protocols, and behavioral traces (Azevedo et al, 2010; Cleary et al, 2021; Greene et al, 2018). Collectively, event measures offer school‐based practitioners the opportunity to generate fine‐grained, real‐time data about specific regulatory processes (e.g., goal setting, attributions) used during common academic activities, such as writing an essay or completing mathematics problems.…”

“…However, they did not provide specific information about the sequence of the assessment process, nor did they convey data regarding the utility and psychometric quality of the most common and relevant SRL assessment approaches. Over the past couple of decades, there has been substantial and rapid growth in the overall quality and innovativeness of SRL assessments, specifically in schools (Cleary et al, 2021; Schunk & Greene, 2018; Tise et al, 2019). Given that greater specificity in the SRL assessment process can enhance school‐based practitioners' ability to link SRL assessment data to intervention planning, the current paper expands and updates the original SREP diagnostic model in several ways.…”