Validating the Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulated Learning Scale for Use With College Students

Poster accepted to the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Conference cancelled due to Covid-19

The current study provides an examination of the psychometric properties of the Self-efficacy for Self-Regulated Learning scale (SESRL; Zimmerman et al., 1992) when used amongst college students. SESRL responses from 1,296 college students were submitted to factor analytic and Rasch modeling techniques to test the dimensionality and measurement properties of the scale. As expected, we found the SESRL scale to be unidimensional. Rasch techniques confirmed the adequacy of the SESRL scale as a measure of college students’ self-efficacy for self-regulated learning (SRL). We found that scores on the SESRL were positively associated with several strategic aspects of SRL and negatively associated with failures to self-regulate. Overall, we recommend the use of the SESRL scale in samples of college students.