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Background@#The shift to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has caused students to experience several challenges in their academic lives. A strategy that may assist in mitigating these challenges and facilitating students' positive adaptation to online learning is the promotion of self-regulated learning (SRL). However, SRL is underexplored in the context of health sciences students. @*Objectives@#This study aimed to describe the extent and examine the nature of SRL of allied health students in a fully remote learning environment. @*Methodology@#This is a cross-sectional online survey study. Data were collected online using Qualtrics. Descriptive statistics and confirmatory factor analysis were used to determine the extent and nature of SRL, respectively. @*Results@#Responses from 241 participants show that students had a mean self-regulated learning score of 82.80 out of 120 (SD=12.68). Of the dimensions of SRL, students had higher scores in environmental structuring, time management, and self-evaluation than the other dimensions. A six-factor second-order model of self-regulation showed adequate model-data fit (χ2=673.88, CFI=0.95, TLI=0.95, SRMR=0.09, RMSEA=0.09 [90% CI=0.08-0.09]). @*Conclusion@#Health science students showed a high level of SRL; SRL for these students is adequately measured using the six dimensions of goal setting, environmental structuring, tasks strategies, time management, help seeking, and self-evaluation. The results indicate the value of understanding the extent and nature of SRL as a first step in planning strategies to support learning and student success in remote environments.
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A suspensão das aulas presenciais em virtude da pandemia de Covid- 19 atingiu todos os sistemas de ensino e, a partir de então, algumas instituições têm adotado as chamadas atividades pedagógicas não presenciais (APNP). O objetivo deste artigo foi analisar, a partir da Psicologia Histórico-Cultural, as mediações relacionadas às APNP no contexto do distanciamento social. Problematizamos o uso dos termos ensino e aula, pois ambos configuram atividades relacionais, dialéticas e dialógicas, experiências coletivas que se materializam no encontro. Realizamos um caminho de análise tendo a categoria mediação como escopo para pensar os processos de aprender e ensinar. Tecemos considerações sobre o lugar da escola na contemporaneidade e sobre o conjunto de relações que permeiam o trabalho com o conhecimento, inclusive na sua forma remota. Apontamos algumas pistas para avaliar este momento em que instituições de ensino adotaram as APNP e apresentamos implicações e perspectivas sobre o retorno à situação presencial.
The suspension of in-person classes due to the Covid-19 pandemic affected all education systems and, since then, some institutions have adopted the so-called non-attendance pedagogical activities (NAPA). The aim of this article was to analyze, from the Historical-Cultural Psychology, the mediations related to NAPA in the context of social distancing. We problematize the use of the terms teaching and class, as both configure relational, dialectical and dialogic activities, collective experiences that materialize in the encounter. We carried out an analysis path having the mediation category as a scope to think about the processes of learning and teaching. We make considerations about the place of the school in contemporaneity and about the set of relationships that permeate the work with knowledge, even in its remote form. We point out some clues to assess this moment when educational institutions adopted NAPA and present implications and perspectives on the return to the presential situation.
Suspender las clases presenciales debido a la pandemia de Covid-19 afectó a todos los sistemas educativos y, desde entonces, algunas instituciones Adoptaron las actividades pedagógicas no presenciales (APNP). El objetivo de este artículo fue analizar, desde la Psicología Histórico-Cultural, las mediaciones relacionadas con APNP contextualizada por la distancia social. Problematizamos el uso de los términos enseñanza y clase, porque ambos configuran actividades relacionales, dialécticas y dialógicas, experiencias colectivas que se materializan en el encuentro. Realizamos una ruta de análisis con la categoría de mediación como ámbito para pensar sobre los procesos de aprendizaje y enseñanza. Hacemos consideraciones sobre el lugar de la escuela en los tiempos contemporáneos y el conjunto de relaciones que impregnan el trabajo con el conocimiento, incluso en su forma remota. Señalamos pistas para evaluar este momento cuando las instituciones educativas adoptaron el APNP y presentan implicaciones y perspectivas sobre el regreso a la situación presencial.
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Humans , Teaching/psychology , Education, Distance , COVID-19/psychology , Learning , Brazil , Physical DistancingABSTRACT
Background@#The shift to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has caused students to experience several challenges in their academic lives. A strategy that may assist in mitigating these challenges and facilitating students' positive adaptation to online learning is the promotion of self-regulated learning (SRL). However, SRL is underexplored in the context of health sciences students. @*Objectives@#This study aimed to describe the extent and examine the nature of SRL of allied health students in a fully remote learning environment. @*Methodology@#This is a cross-sectional online survey study. Data were collected online using Qualtrics. Descriptive statistics and confirmatory factor analysis were used to determine the extent and nature of SRL, respectively. @*Results@#Responses from 241 participants show that students had a mean self-regulated learning score of 82.80 out of 120 (SD=12.68). Of the dimensions of SRL, students had higher scores in environmental structuring, time management, and self-evaluation than the other dimensions. A six-factor second-order model of self-regulation showed adequate model-data fit (χ2=673.88, CFI=0.95, TLI=0.95, SRMR=0.09, RMSEA=0.09 [90% CI=0.08-0.09]). @*Conclusion@#Health science students showed a high level of SRL; SRL for these students is adequately measured using the six dimensions of goal setting, environmental structuring, tasks strategies, time management, help seeking, and self-evaluation. The results indicate the value of understanding the extent and nature of SRL as a first step in planning strategies to support learning and student success in remote environments.