Showcasing Self-regulated Learning Implemented through Data-driven Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Showcasing Self-regulated Learning Implemented through Data-driven Education

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Recognition, transparency, certification; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Showcasing Self-regulated Learning Implemented through Data-driven Education (SLIDEshow)

Self-regulated learning (SRL) skills involve all kinds of strategies students can use to uplift or maintain their motivation and positive emotions towards learning, as well as strategies that allow students to effectively plan, monitor and evaluate their work. Research evidence indicates overwhelmingly the importance of SRL during learning with a positive impact on students’ cognitive and social competence, academic achievement, motivation, well-being and engagement in lifelong learning. Moreover, it is believed that developing SRL skills in the early years of education may equip students with the necessary skills to guard them against early school leaving in secondary education. However, different barriers at policy, teacher education, and teacher level still impede accurate translation of policies into practice. Therefore, this strategic partnership aspires to support the introduction of SRL in primary education across Europe.
The partnership will therefore adopt a holistic, multi-stakeholder approach to enable effective systemic impact in primary and lower secondary education. In addition, the partnership will exploit the opportunities offered by the emergent field of learning analytics to allow teachers and teacher educators to personalize their instructional practices to the actual needs of pupils and teachers respectively. Our unique holistic and personalized approach should facilitate more effective integration of SRL in education across Europe (and ultimately beyond).

The project’s main aim therefore is to:

1) Support the introduction of self-regulated learning in primary education by (1) adopting a multi stakeholder approach and (2) by using the affordances of data-evidenced learning and teaching
2) Build the professional capacity of teachers and teacher educators to use learner information for enhancing and personalising student learning and teacher professional development respectively

Building upon the innovative experience and expertise of the project partners this project will produce the following outputs:

An SRL teacher assessment toolkit
Objectively identifying and monitoring students’ individual SRL level is crucial in order to offer effective and personalised support in the classroom. The project will translate existing validated research instruments into practical high-quality assessment instruments for teachers.

Implementing SRL teacher training course across Europe
The assessment instruments will be integrated in a teacher training course developed in the tMAIL project (www.tmailproject.eu). SLIDEshow will extend the mobile SRL training with the crucial SRL assessment instruments, and support its wider implementation. The training can be followed by teachers individually or in group. Individual teachers can follow the training on their mobile device and connect to other teachers through eTwinning. Teachers in group can be guided by a teacher educator and come together physically.

Personalised data-driven SRL practice frameworks
The project will more clearly define the competences necessary:
1) to support student SRL
2) to use learner data and learning analytics, and
3) to personalise instruction to students’ individual (SRL) levels
The frameworks will be closely linked to the European Qualifications Framework and the DigComp Framework.

A training for teacher educators
The project will develop a training for teacher educators to:
1) train (student) teachers’ competences necessary to support SRL, use learner data, and personalise instruction; and
2) develop themselves the necessary competences to support (student) teacher SRL, use learner data, and personalise instruction

Good practices and evidence-based reports
The project will study the implementation of the mobile SRL training in schools and teacher education practice, as well as the integration of SRL in primary education. This will result in a list of good practices that should help future organisations to implement the mobile SRL training and/or successfully support students’ SRL. Moreover, the collection and analysis of good implementation practices will result in recommendations for policy makers at micro, meso, and macro level to create policies that support the development of students’ SRL and associated teacher instructional competences.

SRL online community of practice
The project will develop an online platform for establishing and supporting a European multi-stakeholder network on SRL.

The mobile app containing the teacher SRL training and SRL assessment toolkit will be available in Dutch, English, German, Finnish, Greek, Spanish, Italian, and Macedonian.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 296896 Eur

Project Coordinator

VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL & Country: BE

Project Partners

• Pädagogische Hochschule Wien
• DOUKA EKPAIDEFTIRIA AE – PALLADION LYKEION EKFPAIDEUTHRIA DOUKA
• HET GEMEENSCHAPSONDERWIJS
• OULUN YLIOPISTO