Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulation

In an article that I found online by Schunk, it is stated that students use goal setting and self regulation as a learning process for setting a variety of goals in their own personal study and work habits. 

In my particular CSEL, I did constructivist theory which looks at students as developing their own understandings and knowledge on their environement and their world view. The students then apply what they have learned to their work. When a student is putting self-regulation and self-efficacy with that, they are able to look at waht they are persoanlly putting into their school work to see if they are being an effective component to their studies and also to their group work. When they are able to see that they are contributing and seeing how they can do more or less to  help the group, they are realizing their assests to the group and more imporantly seeing the effects of their input. 

A way to encourage the students to put forth efforts in their groups or in their individual work is to point out the importance of self-efficacy and self-regulation and really encourage students to push into that and see where their strengths and weaknesses are. This will make the students more diligent with their time and studies, too.