1) In your teaching of your TARGET CLASS, how often have you asked students to do the following | Almost never | A few times a semester | 1 - 3 times per month | 1 - 3 times per week | Almost daily | Mean | SD |
a. Take initiative when confronted with a difficult problem or question? | 0 | 208 | 393 | 66 | 0 | 2.79 | 0.642 |
0% | 31% | 58.7% | 9.9% | 0% | |||
b. Choose their own topics of learning or questions to pursue? | 385 | 282 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.42 | 0.212 |
57.7% | 42.3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | |||
c. Plan the steps they will take to accomplish a complex task? | 536 | 64 | 64 | 0 | 3 | 1.30 | 0.178 |
80.4% | 9.6% | 9.6% | 0% | 0.4% | |||
d. Choose for themselves what examples to study or resources to use? | 73 | 592 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.89 | 0.817 |
10.9% | 88.8% | 0.3% | 0% | 0% | |||
e. Monitor their own progress towards completion of a complex task and modify their work accordingly? | 536 | 64 | 64 | 0 | 3 | 1.30 | 0.655 |
80.4% | 9.6% | 9.6% | 0% | 0.4% | |||
f. Use specific criteria to assess the quality of their work before it is completed? | 275 | 366 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 2.63 | 0.475 |
41% | 54.6% | 3.9% | 0% | 0% | |||
g. Use peer, teacher or expert feedback to revise their work? | 62 | 61 | 24 | 492 | 28 | 3.54 | 0.948 |
9.3% | 9.1% | 3.6% | 73.8% | 4.2% | |||
Average | 2.12 |
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2) To what extent do you agree with these statements about your TARGET CLASS? | Not really | To a minor extent | To a moderate extent | To a great extent | To a very great extent | Mean | SD |
a. I have tried to develop students’ self-direction skills | 0 | 75 | 179 | 107 | 306 | 3.97 | 0.553 |
0% | 11.2% | 26.7% | 16% | 45.7% | |||
b. Most students have learned self-direction skills while in my class | 500 | 46 | 118 | 3 | 0 | 1.44 | 0.873 |
74.6% | 6.9% | 17.6% | 0.4% | 0% | |||
c. I have been able to effectively assess students’ self-direction skills | 653 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1.04 | 0.435 |
97.5% | 1% | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0% |