Volume 1, Edition 43 – Self-Regulation as a Key to Writing

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for helping students’ writing through teaching them self-regulation.

Beyond simply knowing how to write, how much do students need to be able to monitor their goals and use of effective writing process? In an article for the Journal of Educational Psychology, a pair of German researchers confirm previous findings that self-regulation has a major impact on students’ writing skill and discuss why that might be.

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