WieSeL – Knowledge, Application, Promotion: Self-Regulation Competence of Teachers

The WieSeL project studies aspects of teacher competence that support teachers’ promotion of self-regulation of learning among their students. Based on empirical findings, we assume that first, teachers need knowledge about what self-regulated learning and teaching is before they can self-regulate their own teaching and promote self-regulation of learning among their students. The project aims to examine the role of teachers’ knowledge about self-regulation for their promotion of self-regulation in the classroom.

Project structure

Several studies are planned within the project. First, we will investigate how to assess teachers’ knowledge about self-regulation in a valid and reliable way. Subsequently, we plan intervention studies to identify conditions for successful short-term interventions to foster teachers’ self-regulation competence.

The project aims at identifying which aspects of professional teacher competence benefit teachers’ promotion of self-regulation of learning among their students. To this end, we investigate teachers’ beliefs, their self-efficacy to be able to foster self-regulation effectively, teachers’ own self-regulation, as well as their knowledge about self-regulation. In the first phase of the project, we focus on developing a knowledge test to assess declarative, procedural, and conditional knowledge about self-regulation. Furthermore, we will test the effectiveness of short teacher interventions empirically.