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Peer reviewedSobral, Dejano T. – Higher Education, 1997
A self-help approach used to enhance medical students' self-directed learning (SDL) skills in an elective course resulted in increased student feelings of self-efficacy, and the self-ratings had significant relationships to measures of deep approach to study. Academic achievement was higher for this group than for controls. Some conditions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cooperative Learning, Elective Courses, Higher Education
