Harness self-regulation to nurture independent study skills

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Follow these tips to engage students with learning processes

Learning how to learn is a vital outcome of education. To achieve it students must engage with the learning process. One way to do this is self-regulated learning. A study with 16-year old students learning solubility equilibria and acids and bases reveals approaches that lend themselves to classroom teaching of practical work. This article summarises the study and describes how to adopt these teaching strategies.

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