Self-regulating in higher education: a psychological and pedagogical framework

Abstract

This paper describes the psychological and pedagogical (methodological, motivating, organizational, and content-related) conditions for developing the students’ ability to self-regulate, within the framework applied to the mathematics education designed for students at the technical university. The paper gives the results of the experiment indicating the efficacy of these conditions. Groups of students studying at Tomsk Polytechnic University participated in the educational experiment. Tests, observations, questionnaires, techniques of mathematical statistics were used for assessment. The experiment makes it possible to conclude that the self-regulated learning of students on the basis of the Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment ‘Moodle’ together with the project–related activities, performed by students in the existing production environments, leads to a higher level of the students’ ability to self-management.