These forethought processes initiate a proactive,
mindful approach to learning and influence students' behaviors during the performance
control phase, such as implementing task-specific learning strategies, attention, and
monitoring one's learning. Ultimately, the information that an individual gathers during the
performance control phase is used by an individual to engage in self-reflection, including
evaluating goal progress, identifying causes of the successes and failures, and deciding upon
more adaptive courses of actions if one's goals were not attained