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SUMMARY:Parental scaffolding and children’s motivational resources as pr
 edictors of Chinese preschool children’s self-regulated learning - Heyi 
 Zhang\, PhD student\, Faculty of Education
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CONTACT:Simin Zeng
DESCRIPTION:Self-regulated learning (SRL) refers to the learning process g
 uided by the use of cognitive\, metacognitive and motivational strategies.
  As learning begins far before children enter school\, it is important to 
 examine preschool children’s SRL abilities which are essential to later 
 academic achievement. Early studies have emphasized the importance of pare
 ntal scaffolding to children’s SRL. Additionally\, Deci and Ryan’s Sel
 f-Determination Theory (SDT) highlights that the satisfaction of the three
  psychological needs for competence\, autonomy and relatedness facilitates
  individual’s intrinsic motivation for adopting SRL strategies. The thre
 e needs are therefore viewed as motivational resources necessary for maste
 ry of SRL skills. In the literature\, much of the work has focused on eith
 er the role of parental or motivational factors in children’s SRL\, whil
 e very few studies have drawn these two lines of work together. Moreover\,
  the predominance of Caucasian participants in this field warrants further
  studies in different cultural contexts.\n\nTo fill the gaps in the litera
 ture\, the current study aimed to examine the relationships between parent
 al scaffolding\, children’s motivational resources and preschool childre
 n’s SRL in the Chinese context from a multidimensional perspective\, exp
 loring various dimensions of parental and motivational factors and how the
 y contribute to different indicators of SRL. The current study involved 12
 8 Chinese family dyads consisting of children aged 60 to 78 months and the
 ir parents. The primary research method of the study was the behavioural o
 bservation approach. Children were asked to complete a set of problem-solv
 ing tasks both with their parents and independently. In the seminar\, the 
 research background\, research questions\, method and results from a pilot
  study will be presented. \n
LOCATION:Room 2S5\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 
 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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