A Growing Body of Research Offers Guidance About How to Design

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Essay

A growing body of research offers guidance about how to design tasks and structure classroom interactions to support students' development of and engagement in self-regulated learning. This research indicates that students develop academically effective forms of self-regulated learning and a sense of efficacy for learning when teachers involve them in complex, meaningful tasks that extend over long periods of time. Further development occurs if teaching incorporates these features: student control over their learning processes and products (choices), involvement in self-monitoring and self-evaluation, and opportunities to work in collaboration with peers and seek feedback from them. Mr. LeBlanc, in designing a unit on crustaceans, has planned complex, meaningful tasks for his students to do over a 3-week period to meet learning goals in science. How might he incorporate the other 3 features for promoting self-regulated learning?

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Definitions:

Disaggregate Forecasts

The breakdown of comprehensive forecasts into detailed components, typically by product, geography, or customer segment, for more precise planning and management.

Standard Deviation

A statistical measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from their mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Forecast Error

The difference between the actual demand and the forecasted demand, often used as a measure of the accuracy of demand forecasts.

Forecast Error

The difference between the actual demand and the forecasted demand, highlighting inaccuracies in demand planning.