Influence of Self-Regulated Learning Components and Barriers on the Performance of M.Ed. Students in a Blended Workshop

This study is an attempt to identify the key components of Self-regulated Learning (SRL) and associated barriers that influence participants’ performance in a 5-day blended-mode Workshop designed to support the development of a research proposal. The participants were 33 M.Ed. students volunteered from four Teacher Education Colleges affiliated to the University of Calicut, Kerala. A pre-experimental before and after design was used to measure the participants’ performance and to identify the SRL Components and Barriers that influenced it in the workshop respectively. The need to manage a quality ecosystem in the evolving educational practices in this era of technology is supported by the results of the study which identified Execution as a major SRL component contributing to the performance of the participants. It also reveals the influence of time spent on social media and laziness as SRL barriers that adversely affect the participants’ performance.