Applications of Self-Regulated Learning Across Diverse Disciplines

Through its research-to-practice focus this book honors the professionalcontributions of Professor Barry J. Zimmerman as illustrated by the recent selfregulationapplications of a highly respected group of national and internationalscholars. This book will serve as a valuable resource for those interested inempowering and enabling learners to successfully manage and self-direct theirlives education and careers. In particular K-12 educators college instructorscoaches musicians health care providers and researchers will gain invaluableinsight into the nature of self-regulation as well as how they can readily apply self-regulation principles into theirteaching instruction or mentoring. Emergent trends in education and psychology circles such as linking self-regulatedlearning assessment and interventions as well as the use of technology to enhance student learning andself-regulation are additional themes addressed in the book. The kaleidoscope of self-regulation issuesaddressed in this book along with the wide range of promising intervention applications should also prove to beparticularly appealing to graduate students as they pursue their future research activities and seek to optimizetheir individual growth and development.