University Research Critical Review

University Research Critical Review

A critical review of “Schunk, DH 1990, Goal setting and self-efficacy during self-
regulated learning Educational Psychologist, vol. 25 no. 1, pp. 71–86.”
This review is based on the article studied importance of goal settlement and self-efficiency
in the duration of self-regulation in the life of the student based on the emphasis of the
importance of the goal settlement and development of the self-efficiency. There are literature
and theoretical review of the goal settlement and self-efficiency on the life of the students
(Schunk, 1990).
Author is appointed as the dean and professor at the school of education (The University of
North California, Greensboro) Offering six academic departments with the program offering
graduation and post-graduation programs for students. He had approximately 50 published
articles and author of many books as main author is “Learning Theories: an educational
perspective” and as co-author is “Motivation in education: Theory research and applications”
(Schunk, 2012).
This article was published in the year 1989 and it is now 30 years old but significant in the
present scenario of in the life of the student to measure the effects of the self-motivation and
goal settlement in self-learning. The concept is still relevant with the self-learning practices
of the student and their process to accomplish the goal settlement.
In his theoretical overview he has used social cognitive learning theory framework that is
useful for the observation of the psychology, education and the effects of the communication
on the learning concept of the students after settlement of goals in their life comprising three
sub-parts naming self-observation, self-reaction and self-judgement based on the personal
behavioural study of the students in the process of self-learning. Deliberate attention focuses
on the behaviour of an individual affected by the quality, reality and quantity helps to
measure progress in goal attainment (Elliot, 2017). Self-judgement is the process of