Project Instructions
Inquiry Project Checklist:
Because SRL is concerned primarily with the learning process, for your SRL Inquiry Project you will be tracking your learning process as you move through your Proximal Goals to meet your Distal Goal. Here are important criteria that will be used to assess your inquiry project:
These learning strategies are deliberate. At a micro level, for example, you may be checking your progress within your available time frame or resources. At a macro level you may be able to stand back and see how the tasks you are completing toward a specific Proximal Goal contribute to a larger picture, i.e., your Distal Goal. There are many different methods available to you for self-monitoring when you are engaging in inquiry.
One of the things that you need to be aware of in inquiry-based SRL is when you need to seek help.
Help-seeking behaviors are related to higher levels of regulation because they are deliberate, feedback-oriented, and goal- focused.
Here are some guidelines for creating your own monitoring document:
Because SRL is concerned primarily with the learning process, for your SRL Inquiry Project you will be tracking your learning process as you move through your Proximal Goals to meet your Distal Goal. Here are important criteria that will be used to assess your inquiry project:
- The Distal Goal has been clearly stated at the beginning of the work.
- The professional and/or personal significance of the distal goal has been articulated.
- Proximal Goals are clearly delineated and arranged in order of pursuit.
- Reflection has been built into the learning, following the meeting of both proximal goals and the distal goal.
- A variety of kinds of resources has been used, including consultations with experts.
There is evidence of revision, amplification, and/or reconsideration of proximal goals. - Challenges and successes have been indicated, along with how the individual dealt with the former and acknowledged/celebrated the latter.
- There is ample evidence of awareness of principles of SRL that we have studied in this course.
- It is possible to follow the learning journey through the proximal goals to the distal goal in the project.
These learning strategies are deliberate. At a micro level, for example, you may be checking your progress within your available time frame or resources. At a macro level you may be able to stand back and see how the tasks you are completing toward a specific Proximal Goal contribute to a larger picture, i.e., your Distal Goal. There are many different methods available to you for self-monitoring when you are engaging in inquiry.
One of the things that you need to be aware of in inquiry-based SRL is when you need to seek help.
Help-seeking behaviors are related to higher levels of regulation because they are deliberate, feedback-oriented, and goal- focused.
Here are some guidelines for creating your own monitoring document:
- Try to fit your design into one page or less.
- Use a text document or graphic document (with labels) to outline your learning process.
- Post your Distal Goal at the top of the monitoring document. (Remember that your Distal Goal should be achievable within the framework of this course.)
- Indicate your Proximal Goals as sequential steps in your learning process.(Remember that "steps" can include research, consultations with experts, consultations with peers, break-times and self-rewards, reflection, trial-runs,the development of support documents and presentations, etc.)
- Apply dates for the achievement of each proximal goals and the distal goal.