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Statement set
The primary researcher (JB) revisited the transcripts of an earlier interview study on students’ SRL in clinical contexts to create the ini al set of statements.14 In this prior study we interviewed 17 students’ from two di erent Dutch universi es about their SRL behavior. This data was especially suitable for the current study because it gave us access to behavioral descrip ons provided by students themselves. To make sure the statement set covered all relevant aspects of SRL, we used a framework of 16 fundamental constructs that de ned self-regulated learning in the seven most cited SRL theories (see Box 1).7 This led to an ini al set of 156 statements. We dis- cussed the statement set within the research team during three mee ngs. In the rst mee ng statements were rephrased or discarded whilst focusing on the ambiguity, clarity, and suitability of the statements. In the second mee ng, statements were discarded or rephrased with a focus on intelligibility, overlap between statements, and completeness of the set which was informed by the feedback of 5 unassoci- ated researchers in the eld of medical educa on. In the third mee ng, the research team discussed the statements whilst making sure all 16 constructs were covered by at least three statements and lowering the number of statements for the sor ng procedure to a more manageable 82. This set was then piloted in 5 experienced clini- cal students. Based on their feedback in a nal mee ng with the research team we agreed upon a nal set of 52 statements. Figure 2 provides a visual representa on of the development of the statement set. The statements were originally in Dutch, and were translated by the authors for this paper.