Self regulation is not linear but a parallel process

What is it about?

The process of regulation appears to be quite similar across various contexts although the exact nature of the regulation may vary for individual versus collaborative contexts (i.e., depend on the specific context, task goals, and social aspects of the learning environment). Regulating activities that direct the learning activity relate to student test performance.

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Why is it important?

Most people think that regulation process follow a linear way of orienting yourself, planning activities, monitoring the executive processes, testing the results and evaluating. Although complex task starts with the directing of information-processing activities and gradually shifts towards more testing activities such as summarizing, hypothesizing, and checking, these processes take place parallel during the while learning process. The article gives a different perspective on the process.