A Preliminary Study of Self-Regulation Strategies in Chilean Engineering Students

Self-regulation is a key skill for academic success, and to measure self-regulation strategies is especially important in the context of engineering education. However, measuring self-regulation strategies in engineering students has been a challenge due to the lack of validated instruments in Spanish. The objective of this study is developing an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to identify the factors of the instrument the Self-Regulation Strategy Inventory - Self Report (SRSI-SR) to measure self-regulation strategies in engineering students. The design was instrumental, with the participation of 140 Chilean engineering students. The results show adequate validity and reliability indices, being made up of 16 items represented in 4 factors: 1) Organization of the environment, 2) Organization of the task, 3) Information search and 4) Inadequate regulation habits. We suggest that our adaptation of the SRSI-SR instrument to Spanish can be useful to measure self-regulation strategies in engineering students.