AUTHOR=Liu Xiaohong , He Wei , Zhao Li , Hong Jon-Chao 

TITLE=Gender Differences in Self-Regulated Online Learning During the COVID-19 Lockdown

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=12

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.752131

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.752131

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p>Due to the spread of the epidemic around the world, online learning has received greater attention. Self-regulated learning (SRL) is an important factor for students to achieve academic success. This study investigated the gender differences in SRL and three sub-constructs of SRL in the context of online learning, that is the preparatory, performance, and appraisal phases. A total of 400 high school students (males = 125, females = 275) from China participated in this study. In order to identify whether there were gender differences in their self-regulated online learning (SROL), independent sample <italic>t</italic>-test was performed. The results showed that there were significant gender differences in the SROL (<italic>t</italic> = –3.334, <italic>p</italic> = 0.001 &lt; 0.01, <italic>d</italic> = –0.410) and the three sub-constructs of SROL (preparatory: <italic>t</italic> = –0.702, <italic>p</italic> = 0.008 &lt; 0.01, <italic>d</italic> = 0.018; performance: <italic>t</italic> = –3.801, <italic>p</italic> = 0.000 &lt; 0.01, <italic>d</italic> = 0.456; appraisal: <italic>t</italic> = –3.120, <italic>p</italic> = 0.002 &lt; 0.01, <italic>d</italic> = 0.361). The findings indicated that females performed better than males in all three dimensions of learners’ online self-regulated learning.</p>