Editing Goal setting (section)

== Self-regulated learning ==
{{See also|Self-regulated learning}}
While the literature on self-regulated learning covers a broad variety of theoretical perspectives and concepts such as control theory, self-efficacy, action regulation, and resource allocation, goal-setting is a crucial component of virtually all of these approaches as the initiator of self-regulation mechanisms such as planning, monitoring, metacognition, attention, learning strategies, persistence, time management, environmental structuring, help seeking, emotion control, motivation, effort, and self-efficacy.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Sitzmann |first1=Traci |last2=Ely |first2=Katherine |date=2011 |title=A meta-analysis of self-regulated learning in work-related training and educational attainment: What we know and where we need to go. |url=http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/a0022777 |journal=Psychological Bulletin |language=en |volume=137 |issue=3 |pages=421–442 |doi=10.1037/a0022777 |issn=1939-1455 |pmid=21401218|url-access=subscription }}</ref>