Fostering self-regulated learners in a community of quality assessment practices

Self-regulation has become an important field within educational research, but yet there is still little empirical research on the relation between self-regulation and assessment practices. The present paper explores how models of self-regulation and assessment can be linked through the development of metacognitive skills to improve students' learning outcomes. Knowledge from two studies will be used as examples to illustrate how self-regulation can be fostered and linked to developing communities of quality assessment practices in the classroom.