Self-Regulated Learning in Covid 19 Pandemic: A Comparative Study between Indonesia and Malaysia

Abstract

Students all over the world have experienced significant changes in their learning due to the covid-19 pandemic as schools and institutions were forced to switch to distant online education, which requires high self-regulated learning skills. A total of 338 were males and 886 were female respondents from public high school and university students in Indonesia and Malaysia (542 Malaysian and 682 Indonesian). Data were collected using the online self-regulated learning questionnaire (OSRL), which assesses self-regulated learning in the online and blended learning environment. Results revealed that there was statistically significant interaction between the effect of nationality and level of education on SRL among Indonesian and Malaysian students. Postgraduates showed higher levels of SRL in comparison to students from other levels. This study highlighted the SRL strategies that Indonesian and Malaysian students use to overcome the online learning challenges in covid-19, which might help educational institutions understand what support is needed to help students develop self-regulated learning skills in an online learning environment.