The baby is crying. Your older daughter is complaining that her stomach hurts. Dirty dishes from breakfast are piled up in the sink. Your phone rings and its your spouse who has to work late unexpectedly. And amidst the chaos, you remember that you have a paper due tomorrow.

Take a deep breath

As an adult student, you have likely already developed coping skills to help you get through even the toughest of circumstances. The theories of self-regulated learning help you to apply these strategies to an academic learning environment, whether its scheduling to block out chunks of time, minimizing distractions, relying on support networks, using practice tests and note taking strategies, or something else. Your ability to self-regulate is not fixed you can hone the underlying principles of metacognition and motivation, use resources to improve, leverage your areas of strength, and develop learning strategies to help you succeed.
Discussion Instructions

Make sure you have completed page 2.10 of the webtext before beginning this discussion. This section will walk you through the steps of the DAACS activities listed below.

Initial post: At the start of the week, by Thursday evening of Module 2, complete the following steps for this discussion

    Take the DAACS Self-Regulated Learning Assessment (Links to an external site.). (If you have already completed it before taking this course, thats ok! You can either choose to retake it to see how youve changed or used your prior results for this activity).

    Review your Results in the areas of Motivation, Metacognition, and Strategies. 

    Then, complete the DAACS Writing Assessment (Links to an external site.), in which you will write 350 words reflecting on your Self-Regulated Learning results.
    Once you have finished your essay and submitted it through the DAACS site, copy/paste the full text of your Writing Assessment essay into this discussion board as your initial post. (If you completed the Writing Assessment in a previous session, go to the feedback area and click on Summary in the Content section this will display the whole text of your essay which you can copy/paste into the discussion board.) 

You will not be able to see posts written by your classmates until you create your initial post.

Replies: Then, for the remainder of the week, by Sunday evening, go back into your DAACS dashboard (Links to an external site.) and review your Writing Assessment results (in the areas of content, organization, paragraphs, sentences, and conventions). In your replies, engage with your peers about both the self-regulated learning and writing feedback and how each can help you maximize your strengths going forward. Consider the Writing Refresher section of this course in particular, how can you these resources to improve your writing? Please be sure to reply to at least two of your peers’ posts. 
Evaluation

    This discussion will be graded according to the Cornerstone Discussion Board Rubric. Review the rubric and Discussion Board Expectations in advance to know how you will be assessed.
    All discussion boards combined are worth 20% of your course grade.

References
Discussion Board Expectations     Outcomes     Rubric