Exploring Self-regulated Learning Behaviors in a Negotiated Online Reading Assessment

Abstract

This study designed a negotiated online reading assessment in order to facilitate students’ self-monitoring and self-reflection on reading abilities. After taking a reading assessment, students are allowed to negotiate with the system, so that they may further understand their abilities and likely take actions to improve the abilities. This study also conducted a preliminary evaluation to explore the online behaviors of students with different self-regulated learning abilities. For this purpose, a lag sequential analysis approach was applied to identify significant transitions between actions in the negotiation process. The preliminary results showed that low self-regulated learners tended to directly explain their abilities, while high self-regulated learners tended to query the system before explanation. Besides, high self-regulated learners also tended to take the assessment again.