Assessing Self-Directed Learning at School Level

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Copyright: 2018
Pages: 17
Source title: Managing Self-Directed Learning in Primary School Education: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Penny Van Deur (Flinders University, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2613-1.ch003

Keywords: Education / Information Science Reference / K-12 Education / Learning Assessment and Measurement

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Chapter 3 describes the development of an inventory to assess primary school support for inquiry. First, there is a discussion of the role played by the school environment in primary students' learning, and its importance in SDL in particular. Next, there is a description of a framework of a primary school inquiry environment on which is based the assessment instrument, the Primary School Characteristics Inventory (PSCI). This assessment is based on the external (other) influences shown in the model of effective learning in primary students (Chapter 2 Figure 1). The process of pre-testing and trialing the inventory is outlined before the revised version of the inventory was sent to 100 schools across the state of South Australia. Following this, there is an outline of the Primary School Characteristics Inventory used in an intervention study on self-directed learning.

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