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Ace Your Self-Study: A Mobile Application to Support Self-Regulated Learning.

Martine Baars¹, Farshida Zafar², Micah Hrehovcsik³

¹Department of Psychology, Education, and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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Students often overestimate their learning without effective study strategies. This study introduces the Ace your self-study app to prompt cognitive and metacognitive strategies, supporting self-regulated learning (SRL).

Keywords:

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Learning Sciences

Background:

Students frequently overestimate their comprehension and recall of academic material.
Effective study guidance and self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies are often lacking for students.
Cognitive and metacognitive strategy prompting is crucial for enhancing SRL.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce the "Ace your self-study" mobile application.
To support students' learning processes by prompting cognitive and metacognitive strategies.
To present the app's theoretical background, features, and design choices.

Main Methods:

Development of a mobile application designed to prompt learning strategies.
Integration of features aimed at fostering self-regulated learning.
Analysis of application usage data to understand user engagement.

Main Results:

The "Ace your self-study" app prompts both cognitive and metacognitive strategies.
Data provides insights into how students utilize the app for studying.
The app aims to bridge the gap in study strategy instruction.

Conclusions:

Mobile applications can effectively prompt SRL strategies.
The "Ace your self-study" app offers a novel approach to enhance student learning.
Further data analysis will elucidate the app's impact on learning outcomes.