The data has demonstrated that project-based learning supports self-regulatory behavior
development. This pedagogical strategy afforded students many opportunities to weave their
personal knowledge of the subject with the historical content that I anticipated students would
learn from the curriculum. The process of completing the product, the goal of the project-based
learning experience, caused students to use goal-oriented behaviors. The data indicate that the
more often students use specific goal-oriented behaviors in a project-based learning setting, the
more likely they will perceive themselves as being able to do the necessary work.