Abstract:

This study was planned to determine nursing students' self-directed learning readiness levels and affecting factors.The study was carried out with 294 nursing who registered during the 2012-2013 in academic semester at Ataturk University Faculty of Health Sciences Nursing Department B Class. The data was collected using the student information form prepared by the researchers and the Self Directed Learning Readiness Scale (SDLRS) which developed by Fisher et al. in 2001 and translated to Turkish by Kocaman et al. in 2004. According to the findings obtained from the study, 70% of the students' total scores were on the 150 points which were accepted as a cut point for Self-directed Learning Readiness Levels and their average scores were also found as 157.44± 20.44. The SDLRS was compared with the students' gender, female students' score of each subscale and total SDLR scale were higher and difference between total SDL scores and two subscales apart from Desire for Learning was found statistical significance (p< 0.05). The average of subscale and total SDLRS score were compared with class levels, total scale score of first and second educational years were higher but this difference was not found statistical meaning (p>0.05).

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