Effect of Flipped Classroom Instructional Strategy on Self Directed Learning

The present study is conducted with objective of comparing the self-directed learning of students in a fipped class set up and a traditional class set up. It is delimited to rural college students of Jalandhar district only. Flipped class students are more self-directed learners than students of the traditional classroom. There is an insignifcant difference in self-directed learning among male and female students of the fipped classroom. Female students exhibited more self-directed learners than boys of traditional class. In the FC model of instruction, boys are more self-directed learners than their male counterparts in the conventional classroom. Male students of fipped classroom are more self-directed learners than male students in conventional class. It revealed that there exists an insignifcant difference in self-directed scores in girls of the fipped class and the traditional class.