PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2018
San Diego, California
Measuring Self-Regulated Learning: A Tool for Understanding Disengagement in Calculus I
Page: 1457
Calculus 1 has been and continues to be a key gateway course to STEM majors, which contributes to a loss of students in the STEM pipeline. Student-learning behaviors impact performance and, in turn, the student experience. By analyzing early online homework activity and help seeking, rich descriptions of students can be used for early prediction for at-risk students, but can be misrepresentative for students who have not yet engaged with these resources. This preliminary report presents self-regulated learning (SRL) theory as a way to understand student behaviors. Using this framework, online tools were designed to collect behavioral data which was used to create a SRL score based on in-course student activity. This preliminary report presents findings on the relationship between student behaviors in Calculus I, a behavioral SRL score, and failure rates, particularly with students disengaged with course content.