Fostering Self-Regulated Learning Through School Newspaper

Abstract

School newspapers have a long educational tradition. However, the scientific literature on this activity is relatively scarce. The objective of this research is to check if there is a positive relationship between selfregulation and participation in school newspaper projects. Three groups of students will be studied who come to the same school, the IIS Einaudi of Rome (Italy). The first group will produce a web newspaper. The second a traditional newspaper. The third will be a control group. The adopted methodology will be mixed: qualitative and quantitative. The design of the qualitative analysis will be based on a case study through open interviews to students and teachers and through the direct observation of writing meetings. For the quantitative analysis the design will be quasi-experimental and it will be used a version of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MLSQ) validated for Italian high school students. Regarding the results, it is expected that the group of the web newspaper will be the one that best manages to self-regulate their learning.