The Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale: a factor analysis study.

Autor: Hoban, J Dennis, Lawson, Sonya R, Mazmanian, Paul E, Best, Al M, Seibel, Hugo R
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Zdroj: Medical Education; Apr2005, Vol. 39 Issue 4, p370-379, 10p
Abstrakt: The practice of medicine demands that its physician practitioners are self-directed, life-long learners. The Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale (SDLRS) intends to measure adults' readiness to engage in self-directed learning.The present study assesses the underlying factor structure of the SDLRS for a sample of entering medical students.Over a period of 6 years, 972 first year medical students at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine completed the SDLRS. To summarise the inter-relationships among variables, a principal axis factor analysis with oblique rotation was used on the 58 SDLRS items. A series of confirmatory factor analyses using LISREL 8.54 was performed to further examine the measurement model underlying the SDLRS.A 4-factor confirmatory model representing 4 correlated substantive factors and a reverse coding method factor fits these data well.Medical educators should hold limited expectations of the SDLRS to measure medical students' readiness to engage in self-directed learning. The definitions and theoretical assumptions that inform readiness for self-directed learning should be reconsidered. Alternative approaches to studying self-directed learning should be explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index
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