Competence Acquisition through Autonomy in the Self-regulated Learning Process

Abstract

Academic self-regulation has become one of the basic competences in our educational system following the new paradigm of the European Space for Higher Education. Learning self-regulation is not a mental capacity such as intelligence or a skill such as reading but a self-directed process through which learners transform their mental capacities into academic skills. Motivational dimensions (e.g., intrinsic and extrinsic guidance, value given to activities, learning locus of control, learning self-efficiency and evaluation- related anxiety) are specifically considered in the present research focused on Media and Communication students at the University of Valencia.