Preservice mathematics teachers' promotion of self-regulation(PSRL) in time: A mixed-method study

These two-phased mixed method quasi-experimental study was conducted to investigate preservice mathematics teachers' promotion of self-regulated learning (PSRL) with respect to time through participation in a self-regulated learning (SRL) Enriched Seminar Course. Preservice teachers' self-efficacy beliefs for promotion of self-regulation (SE-PSRL) over time was also investigated. 44 senior preservice mathematics teachers at a university in Istanbul participated for the first phase of the study. They were divided into two sections for a practice teaching seminar course before the onset of the research, constituting the experimental (intervention) and control (no intervention) groups. The SRL Enriched Seminar Course was implemented with the intervention group for one academic term. The participants in the control group were enrolled in the seminar course without a particular focus on SRL. Participants were administered two different scales that measured their SE-PSRL and PSRL at four different time points, associated with their teaching experiences at their practice teaching schools. Qualitative data were also gathered through semi-structured interviews. Mixed design ANOVA was used to analyze the differences between SE-PSRL and PSRL scores of the groups with respect to time. The second phase of the study was conducted to investigate inservice mathematics teachers' (PSRL) as a follow up study. Thirty inservice teachers who participated the first phase of the study was selected for the follow-up study and participants were administered SRLIT scale that measured their PSRL at once. Preliminary results of the study indicated that while participants' SE-PSRL scores differed statistically, PSRL scores did not differ statistically according to time and group. Interview data point towards various reasons for such unanticipated findings. Key Words: Self-Regulated Learning, Promotion of Self-Regulated Learning, Teacher Training.