The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of SRSD writing instruction on the elementary students' writing ability and self-efficacy. The participants of this study were 3rd grade elementary students from two classrooms, with one experimental group(n=35) and the other control group(n=35) for seven weeks, 36 sessions. The results showed the positive effects on writing ability and sub-skills(content, organization, expressive writing). This study measured the differences between instructional phases, during which teachers provided explicit explanation and modeling proved to be effective for the improvement of students' writing abilities. The results had practical implication by showing changes of students' writing in different instructional phases for the different ability groups.
Key words : Self-regulated strategy development instruction, writing ability, self-efficacy * Sungnam Danam Elementary school
** Korea University, Dept. of Education, Corresponding author, sshysk@korea.ac.kr