Gaining Substantial New Insights Into University Students' Self-Regulated Learning Competencies: How Can We Succeed?

Self-regulated learning (SRL) is a major issue in current educational research. To reach more coherence and advance in research on SRL competencies in complex learning settings like universities, the authors suggest an integrative approach in terms of theory and measurement in this opinion paper. Integration and thinking in more holistic dimensions could be identified as central desiderata for gaining deeper insight into underlying mechanisms of successful SRL. One might argue that this concern is a huge challenge, not really new and presumably the case in many fields. We would agree, but it seems as if there is still need for transferring this recognition into research practice, especially for SRL, which is highly complex but deeply relevant for sustainable learning success. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)