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After defining Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) and explaining its overall importance, we discuss why cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies for SRL are important for gifted learners. We then describe how SRL can be taught to all students—including gifted students—in mixed-ability groups in primary school and introduce a series of SRL training units developed over the past 15 years. We provide extensive coverage of the guidelines according to which our training units were designed, thereby offering readers a toolbox of sorts for adapting existing training units to their own needs. We conclude this discussion with a description of the effectiveness research carried out for our training units. Finally, we briefly consider the adaptability of our SRL approach for non-Western cultures by discussing the example of East-Asian versus Western cultural orientations and earlier cross-cultural SRL research.
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Stoeger, H., Balestrini, D.P., Steinbach, J. (2021). Self-Regulated Learning for High-Ability and High-Achieving Students in Mixed-Ability Classrooms Throughout the Asia-Pacific. In: Smith, S.R. (eds) Handbook of Giftedness and Talent Development in the Asia-Pacific. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3041-4_13
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