In our second episode, Sarah and Becca talk about self-regulating your learning in grad school. They also:

• talk about what self-regulated learning is


• why self-regulated learning is important for grad students


• how thinking about tasks, goals, and strategies can lead to success


• answer a grad student's question about financial concerns in grad school


• share hot tips on collecting data about your learning and choosing strategies

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Session references:

Til Debt Do Us Part. (3 Mar 2023). In Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Til_Debt_Do_Us_Part

Winne, P. H. (2018). Cognition and metacognition within self-regulated learning. In P. A. Alexander, D. H. Schunk, & J. A. Greene (Eds.), Handbook of self-regulation of learning and performance. Routledge Handbooks Online. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315697048.ch3

Winne, P. H., & Hadwin, A. F. (1998). Studying as self-regulated learning. In D. J. Hacker, J. Dunlosky, & A. C. Graesser (Eds.), Metacognition in educational theory and practice (pp. 277–304). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.

Zimmerman, B. J. (2000). “Attaining self-regulation: a social cognitive perspective,” in Handbook of Self-Regulation, eds M. Boekaerts, P. R. Pintrich, and M. Zeidner (San Diego, CA: Academic Press), 13–40. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012109890-2/50031-7

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