Creativity supports the advancement of all disciplines, providing both individualand societal benefits. Most individuals can demonstrate and improve their creativity; therefore,understanding the creative process is of particular interest to facilitate deliberate developmentof creative thinkers. Despite copious research of the creative process, the work tends to befragmented without a unified, general theoretical foundation. Historically, creative processresearch has examined the steps that creative people use, while overlooking how people learnthese steps and the mechanisms behind the process. This paper proposes to situate the creativeprocess within broader theoretical framework of self-regulated learning (SRL). This mergeremphasizes that the creative process can be learned and that creative process strategies mayinspire general learning strategies. Further, the SRL framework provides an organizationalstructure that illuminates gaps in current research and provides inspiration for new measure-ment techniques. Current assessment methods are often unable to determine how peopleregulate themselves throughout the creative process, specifically how internal psychologicalprocesses, external behaviors, and explicit strategies influence the creative process; however,SRL measurement techniques, like SRL microanalysis interviews, may provide an opportunityto identify intervention casual mechanisms, extend experimental studies, provide consistentvariables to compare across disciplines and studies, and help practitioners assess students’creative proces

• Anchoring the Creative Process Within a Self-RegulatedLearning Framework: Inspiring Assessment Methodsand Future Research