title: The nature of student teachers' regulation of learning in teacher education.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Self-regulated learning (SRL) has mainly been conceptualized to involve student learning within academic settings. In teacher education, where learning from theory and practice is combined, student teachers also need to regulate their learning. Hence, there is an urgent need to extend SRL theories to the domain of teacher learning and to obtain scientific knowledge on the nature of student teachers' SRL to enable support of these processes in teacher education.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study was aimed at exploring the nature of student teachers' regulation of learning across various theoretical and practical contexts in teacher education.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-eight students from a post-graduate academic teacher education institute participated in this study.
  
  
  METHODS
  For the measurement of student teachers' regulation activities, an open question log, called Learning Report, was developed. Content analysis and multiple correspondence analyses of 133 Learning Reports were used to identify qualitative differences in regulation activities and the underlying structure in the data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The analyses resulted in the identification and description of the variety and frequency of student teachers' regulation activities. The relations among the regulation activities were described by an underlying structure of two dimensions: passive versus active regulation of learning and prospective versus retrospective regulation of learning. Active regulation dominated in practice schools, passive regulation at the university.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is argued that for learning to teach, a different conceptualization of SRL is needed, focusing less on setting initial learning goals and more on retrospective aspects of SRL. Building blocks for such a conceptualization are offered.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. m.d.endedijk@utwente.nl
authors.forename: Maaike D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Endedijk
authors.forename: Jan D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Vermunt
authors.forename: Nico
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Verloop
authors.forename: Mieke
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brekelmans
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D004500:Education, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D005178:Faculty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands; D012649:Self Concept; D057566:Self Report; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires