Introduction to special issue on facilitating self-regulated learning with scaffolds: Recent advances and future directions

It is important for learners to engage in self-regulated learning (SRL), as it predicts academic achievement in a wide range of disciplines. However, SRL can be difficult to enact. Therefore, scaffolds have been designed to support SRL. In our introductory article to this special issue on facilitating SRL with scaffolds, we present a framework to categorize different scaffolds, place the contributions to this special issue in the framework, present highlights from the contributions, and conclude with a discussion on designing scaffolds to facilitate SRL.