4th International Conference on Lifelong Education and Leadership for All-ICLEL, Wroclaw, Poland, 3 - 05 July 2018, pp.802-807
The purpose of the present study was to examine the self-directed learning readiness of students in department of nursing and midwifery. Survey model was used among the descriptive research methods in this study. The overall of 398 students attended in this questionnaire. The Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale (SDLRS) that was developed by Fisher et al. (2001) was used. The average overall score attained from SDLRS was 4.07 for the midwifery students and 3.91 for the nursing students In the data analysis, it was revealed that the nursing and midwifery students had intermediate and high SDLR in this study.