A research on online self-regulated learning skills of pre-service Turkish teachers

Abstract

With online learning being on the agenda again in higher education, university students had different views about the online learning process. While some students evaluated this process as an advantage, others expressed the difficulties of the process. There are reasons, such as students' ability to organize their learning processes and being aware of their capacities under these different views. It was observed that students possessing such skills implement various strategies during the learning process and adapt it to their needs. Self-regulation is a prerequisite for a successful learning process and emphasizes the learner's autonomy and personal preferences. Self-regulation skills have become more noteworthy, especially in the online learning process, where students become passive recipients. While students who have developed self-regulation skills in the online learning process are successful, students who do not have this skill are more disadvantaged. Therefore, in this process, we come across two opposite groups, those who turn online learning into an advantage and those who cannot manage this process. This study aimed to assess the self-regulated learning skills of pre-service Turkish teachers who underwent online learning. This study was designed according to the descriptive survey method and was limited to 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th-grade students in the Department of Turkish Language Teaching. In this study, Online Self-Regulated Learning Scale used developed by Barnard et al. (2008) and adopted into Turkish by Samsa Yetik (2011). The obtained data were analyzed with the IBM SPSS Statistics 25 program. This study found that pre-service teachers' online self-regulation skills differed depending on their previous experience with distance education. Significant differences were found in different sub-dimensions of pre-service teachers' online self-regulation skills based on synchronous or asynchronous attendance in distance education courses.

Keywords

• online learning
• self-regulated learning
• pre-service Turkish teachers

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