SELF-REGULATED LEARNING AS STRATEGY FOR IMPROVING UNDERGRADUATES’ ACADEMIC MOTIVATION IN NIGERIA

Lackofself-regulationhas beenfound to bea major cause of underachievement when students are unable to control their ownbehaviour. Self-regulation is the self-generated thoughts, feelings and actions for achieving goals.Thisstudy examinedself-regulated learning asstrategy for improving undergraduates'academic motivation in Nigeria. Toexplain how self-regulated learning canbe usedas astrategy to increase undergraduates'academicmotivation, thesocial cognitive theoryapproach was used. According to s