The weave of motivation and self-regulated learning.

An analysis of self-regulated learning (SRL) and motivation is at once simple and intensely complicated. It is simple because everything a student does can be said to be motivated. Without motivation, except for reflexive behavior like the eye blink reflex, there is no behavior, including SRL. Beneath this simplicity, however, is a complex weave of students’ knowledge, feedback they create and feedback they receive, and thoughts about whether...