Self-Assessment and Motivational Beliefs: Applying CSE Scales into a Chinese Tertiary EFL Self-Regulated Learning Course

Data are collected with four instruments: (a) a motivational beliefs questionnaire; (b) a set of self-assessment scales adapted from the CSE listening self-assessment scale; (c) two sets of CET-4 (College English Test-Band 4) for a pretest and a posttest; (d) a semi-structured interview.
The study was conducted in an online College English listening course supported by the Unipus Intelligent Teaching and Learning Cloud Platform. The participants were 230 Chinese undergraduates from Forestry, Computer Science, and Commerce majors.
This study adopted an eight-week quasi-experiment and compared the performance of two groups: an experiment group that received self-assessment intervention and a control group without intervention. Three researchers develop CSE-based self-assessment scales, send them in the Wechat group, and provide instant feedback when students have problems. All the participants were recruited voluntarily after their receiving a letter of consent, and they were informed of their rights to withdraw from the research at any time during or after the data collection. 181 valid participants completed all processes within eight weeks’ experiment (NFemale=116, NMale=65), with the experiment group being 85 and the control group being 96.