Marie Catherine White

• Ph D
• Professor (Full) at Nyack College

Teaching and learning occur within a socio-cultural context of values, traditions, and relationships. World language teachers focus on the development of language learners as culturally proactive and self-regulated participants in the process of learning a new language. Modeling respect for the culture in which the language is embedded, encourages...

Self-regulation of cognition and behavior is an important aspect of student learning and academic performance in the 21st-century classroom. The purpose of the chapter is to present how an integrated framework of cyclical phases and developmental levels of self-regulated learning play a significant role in modeling and self-regulatory learning as k...

Self-regulation of cognition and behavior is an important aspect of student learning and academic performance in the 21st-century classroom. The purpose of the chapter is to present how an integrated framework of cyclical phases and developmental levels of self-regulated learning play a significant role in modeling and self-regulatory learning as k...

Self-regulated learning refers to the processes used by learners to systematically and actively attain their personal goals. As such, it involves an individual's use of cognition, behavior, and affect to sustain this pursuit (Zimmerman & Schunk, 2011). Bandura's (2012) social cognitive theory explains individual learning, development , acquisition...

During the last a few decades, research on how teachers and students self-regulate their behavior, cognition, motivation, beliefs, and actions has permeated the discipline of educational psychology in ways such as we now have a better understanding of how to create safe and supporting learning environments for teachers and students. Using prelimina...

During the last a few decades, research on how teachers and students self-regulate their behavior, cognition, motivation, beliefs, and actions has permeated the discipline of educational psychology in ways such as we now have a better understanding of how to create safe and supporting learning environments for teachers and students. Using prelimina...

The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts created new challenges for teachers and pre-service instructors. Self-regulated learning, using one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to reach goals, can help students become independent, self-directed learners. This book provides educators the support they need to apply the principles of...

This chapter introduces the book on self-regulation of learning and teaching by providing evidence from research conducted in an urban institution with core values that are aligned with academic, diverse, and transforming principles, which was the perfect choice for a small group of aspiring teachers. Not fully realizing the obstacles to achieving...

This chapter focuses on the critical roles teacher candidates’ self-report of their learning and teaching experiences have in their development as aspiring teachers. Through survey reports, four teacher candidates have an opportunity to demonstrate their readiness for teaching, their perception of the teaching profession, and their self-regulation...

This chapter examines four teacher candidates’ perception of their teaching readiness by providing them a forum during a structured-interview where they could be free to share their reflection of who they are and how they perceived their aspiring profession. The interviews were conducted in person with three instructors while they were student teac...

This chapter highlights the major findings of this case study in which we followed four teacher candidates from student teaching until 2 years after graduation. This chapter also highlights the major contributions of this case study with regard to the important role self-regulation of learning plays in teacher preparation programs. The case study r...

Social cognitive theory emphasizes the importance of human agency and provides a framework to study how learners acquire competencies, skills, dispositions, beliefs, and self-regulation. This chapter argues that self-regulated learning and development is one way in which social cognitive theory has been applied to preparing future teachers. In addi...

The chapter holistically describes the setting in which the academic and teaching experience practices of four teacher candidates took place. Data were collected during student teaching and clinical experiences in an urban setting from the perspective of social cognitive and self-regulation theoretical frameworks. This report is the first to follow...

This chapter describes the clinical experiences of four teacher candidates while they were completing student teaching in a program with a heavy emphasis on help seeking and delay of gratification as two self-regulated learning strategies and it describes a set of classroom observations. The institution’s core values influence every aspect of teach...

Abstract White and Bembenutty proposed at AERA 2015 a dual-process framework to successfully integrate cognitive modeling for instruction and self-regulation of learning. Effective learning depends on both the learners’ ability to engage in self-regulation of learning as well as the presence of effective modeling during instruction. This framework...

The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts created new challenges for teachers and pre-service instructors. Self-regulated learning, using one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to reach goals, can help students become independent, self-directed learners. This book provides educators the support they need to apply the principles of...

This paper examines the implications of diversity toward the preparation of teachers for urban schools and communities. Consistent with Bandura's social cognitive theory and Zimmerman's self­regulation theory, we introduce our culturally proactive teaching model. The proposed model focuses on the development of self­fulfilling cycles of academic se...

Using study logs to track students’ homework practices has been shown to serve as an effective self-monitoring tool in educational settings. In the present study, we examined college students’ self-reported homework practices in a homework log as well as their beliefs, use of self-regulatory strategies, and motivation. The findings support Zimmerma...

This study examined 86 teacher candidates’ use of help seeking strategies and beliefs for preparing to pass a state certification examination. Using cluster analysis, we identified three different kinds of help seekers among the participants. One of the clusters represented teacher candidates for whom help seeking was an important and adaptive self...

This study examined teacher candidates’ use of help-seeking strategies in relation to preparation for a New York State teacher certification assessment of basic skills, the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test (LAST). Cluster and discriminant analyses reveal three kinds of help seekers. Cluster 1 (avoidance-executive help seekers) are students with a mod...

This study examined the association between motivation, self-regulation, and homework practices at the course-level and student-level. Multilevel analyses were conducted to assess student-level and course-level. Course-level variation accounted for 30% of the variance in students’ obtained final course grade. These findings support using homework l...

The purpose of this presentation is to highlight how Dr. Barry Zimmerman, as a mentor, incurs in his students the sense of self-efficacy. The theoretical framework of this presentation focuses on how concomitant Zimmerman’s mentoring approach is with his cyclical phases of self-regulation of learning. His first question to me was, “In what area do...

This study was designed to identify the help seeking behaviors of preservice teachers who are at risk for failure of state certification examinations through use of a scale adapted to the arena of teacher education, the Preservice Teacher Help Seeking Scales (PTHSS). In the past, self-report measures of help seeking behavior patterns have been prob...