Study 2: Unveiling Dental Students’ Baseline Self-Regulated Learning Skills During an Authentic Diagnostic Reasoning Task

Instrument adaptation included a two-round Delphi process with 17 experts in Round 1 and 15 in Round 2. Quantitative data were complemented by thematic analysis of students’ open-ended SRL-MA responses. Datafiles The dataset accompanying this descriptor contains three files. • Study2_Quantitative_Data_EN_Deidentified.xlsx: De-identified quantitative data containing 63 SRL-MA observations and 126 ART-R ratings.

Exact dates and original student, observation, and rater codes were removed or replaced with repository-specific identifiers; no re-identification key is included. • Study2_Delphi_Panel_Data_EN_Deidentified.xlsx: De-identified data from the two-round Delphi process used for cross-cultural adaptation and content validity of the SRL-MA and ART-R. It includes expert ratings, item summaries, and English translations of the original Spanish comments.

Expert identifiers were replaced with repository-specific codes. • Study2_SRLMA_OpenEnded_Responses_Combined.docx: English-language compilation of open-ended SRL-MA responses from the strategic planning, self-monitoring, and self-evaluation phases, organised by observation and phase.