SRL phase transitions during clinical reasoning with a multimedia system are frequent, cyclical, and dominated by Forethought→Performance and Performance→Forethought transitions¶

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q2 i? The most frequent SRL phase dyad was Forethought→Performance (25%), followed by Performance→Forethought (21%), Performance→Self-reflection (14%), and Self-reflection→Performance (11%). → Cloude 2025

Evidence¶

Cloude 2025¶

Cloude, E. B., Chapman, R., Azevedo, R., Castiglioni, A., LaRochelle, J., Hernandez, C., & Torre, D. (2025). Novice and expert self-regulated learning phase transitions in medical diagnosis: Implications for adaptive and intelligent systems. Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-025-09729-4

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Sequential pattern mining with the TraMineR package on think-aloud-derived SRL phase sequences from 34 participants solving five clinical cases. The most frequent dyad sequences were "F → P (25%)", with P → F and P → SR next; percent frequencies are as printed.

"The results showed that the most frequent dyad-Phase sequences were F → P (25%), followed by P → F (21%), and P → SR (14%), and finally SR → P (11%; Table 4)."

Discussion¶

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