To optimize the effectiveness of these regulatory processes, students will often enlist the
use of various self-regulation strategies (i.e., tactics or sequences of activities), such as
making a study schedule, developing self-tests to assess learning progress, or recording the
types of information that one cannot easily recite from memory during studying (Gettinger
& Seibert, 2002; Weinstein, Husman, & Dierking, 2000)