Assessment of nursing students’ readiness for self directed learning in clinical placement

Clinical Placement is important aspect of learning process in Nursing Curriculum. In clinical placement,learning methods have roles in developing students’ capability and build their characters and develop their potentials so that they can behave as expected. Self-directed Learning (SDL) as one of clinical learning methods is a process where students take initiative and responsibility in identifying the need of independent learning, determine purposes, determine learning sources, and evaluate learning outcomes. Survey method using cross sectional research design was utilized in this study. Samples were 254 nursing students. The instrument used for measuring was Self-directed Learning Readiness (SDLR), first developed by Fisher et al. Data were analyzed using the statistical software SPSS. Kruskal Wallis test was used to analyze the differences in readiness scores for students in SDL, while to analyze which groups are different, the Post Hoc analysis test was carried out using the Mann Whitney Test. Result: There are differences regarding levels of the students’ readiness in SDLR (p value = 0.000 < 0.005). There is readiness differences between students in year one and two, year one and year three (p value = 0.000 <0.005) but there is no readiness differences between the second-year students and the third-year students (p value = 0.777 > 0.005).