Self monitoring
Αυτοπαρακολούθηση
Reading a signal from your own work while the work is still running, against a standard you wrote down before you began. It is not a running score of how well you are doing. A score rates you; a monitor tells you that something has moved and that you can still act on it.
How to spot it
Ask whether you could tell right now, without stopping, that you have gone off course. If the answer needs you to stop and judge, what you have is a review and not a monitor.
The research behind the term
The term is not our invention. It comes from published research, and what follows is what that research found — our own synthesis of the published abstract, not a translation of the original.
Butler, D. L., & Winne, P. H. (1995). Feedback and Self-Regulated Learning — doi:10.3102/00346543065003245
What it found
- Feedback is not an external add-on to self-regulation but an integral and decisive element of its processes.
- Monitoring one's own cognitive engagement is the hub around which self-regulation is organised.
- Findings from different research traditions can be interpreted within a single framework through an expanded model of self-regulated learning.
How it found it
Theoretical synthesis: a model of self-regulation is constructed from the educational and psychological literature and used as a framework for reinterpreting existing findings on feedback.
Practised in
The term does not stay a definition. It appears inside missions where the pattern happens in real time and you have to recognise it as it happens to you.
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Sources
Every claim on this page maps to published research. The citations link to the original source.
- Butler, D. L., & Winne, P. H. (1995). Feedback and Self-Regulated Learning — doi:10.3102/00346543065003245