Factors Predicting Self Directed Learning in Anatomy Subject of Nursing Students’ Eastern Asia University

Abstract

            The purposes of this research were: 1) to study the relationship between achievement motive, teaching quality and self-directed learning in the subject anatomy of nursing students at Eastern Asia University, 2) to predict self-directed learning in the subject anatomy of nursing students at Eastern Asia University from variables including achievement motive and teaching quality. The samples were selected using purposive sampling. There were 152 participants who had previously enrolled, studied and received an anatomy grade in the Bachelor of Nursing (Revised year 2016) at Eastern Asia University and voluntarily participated in this research. The research instruments were five-level rating scale questionnaires consisting of achievement motive questionnaire, teaching quality questionnaire and self-directed learning questionnaire developed by the researcher. The quality of research instruments had content validity, with whole items consisting of IOC greater than 0.6 and the coefficient alpha were 0.950, 0.981 and 0.942 respectively. The statistical analysis included descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation and multiple regression analysis. The research findings were as follows:

            Achievement motive and teaching quality was significantly positively correlated with self-directed learning on the anatomy subject. Self-directed learning on the anatomy subject was significantly predicted by achievement motive and teaching quality. The coefficient estimates with unbiased prediction was 72.4% as in the following prediction equation:

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