Describing teachers’ self-regulation of information seeking: Preliminary results from physiological arousals and log files

The study examines teachers’ self-regulation when they are seeking information in an open-ended learning environment. Multimodal data of log files and participants’ electrodermal activities data during information seeking were collected and analyzed. The preliminary results from one participant’s data demonstrated that teachers can execute self-regulated learning activities but might not maintain them throughout the problem-solving process. Teachers that regulate and orient their goals in an efficient way have relatively lower physiological arousal. Those with less self-regulation demonstrate aimless navigating behaviors and relatively higher physiological arousals. The findings could contribute to research into converging multimodal data to analyze SRL. However, more data are required for the interest of trustworthiness and generalizability. Copyright © 2020 Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR).