Agency for Learning: Intention, Motivation, Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulation

Agency is inherent in students’ ability to regulate, control, and monitor their own learning. A learners' effectiveness in regulating their cognitive, affective, and behavioural processes as they interact within the learning environmental is critical to their academic success. This article advances a theory of learner agency, or agency for learning, as an emergent capacity that is intentional, self-generated, and reactive to social factors in...