1.6 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
This study posed the following research questions to investigate specific self-regulatory skills:
effective learning strategies, goal setting, and time management, independently used by middle
school students to accomplish project outcomes:
1. Which teaching strategies emerge as having had an impact on students’
development of self-regulated behavior?
2. Which learning strategy, goal setting, or time management skills as reported
by the students contributed to their overall capacity for self-regulation?
3. What curricular activities of the project-based learning experience are identified by
both the teacher and the students as being helpful in accomplishing the students’
goals?
4. Is there a significant increase from the beginning to the end of the project-based
learning experience in students’ Bandura Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulated Learning
Scale mean scores?
5. Is there a significant increase from the beginning to the end of the project-based
learning experience in the mean scores of students who scored high (the top 20%) on
the Bandura Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulated Learning Scale on the pretest?
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6. Is there a significant increase from the beginning to the end of the project-based
learning experience in the mean scores of students who scored low (the bottom 20%)
on the Bandura Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulated Learning Scale on the pretest?
7. Is there a significant increase from the beginning to the end of the project-based
learning experience in students’ goal accomplishment style mean scores on the Goal
Orientation Index (GOI) subscales, Part 1 (Acting, Planning, and Reflecting) and the
twelve goal-oriented behaviors, Part 2?
8. Is there a significant increase from the beginning to the end of the project-based
learning experience in the goal accomplishment style mean scores of students who
scored high (the top 20%) on the pretest Reflecting Subscale of the GOI Subscales?
9. Is there a significant increase from the beginning to the end of the project-based
learning experience in the goal accomplishment style mean scores of students who
scored low (the bottom 20%) on the pretest Reflecting Subscale of the GOI
Subscales?
10. Is there a positive correlation between the students’ total post-test scores on the
Bandura Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulated Learning Scale and the students’ post-test
scores on the Goal Orientation Index?