The learning environment as a mediating variable between self-directed learning readiness and academic performance of a sample of saudi nursing and medical emergency students

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 36, Issue , 2016, Pages 249-254

  Alotaibi, Khaled N ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Learning environment; Saudi Arabia; Self directed learning readiness

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; LEARNING; MANPOWER; MEDICAL STUDENT; NURSING STUDENT; SAUDI ARABIA;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; LEARNING; SAUDI ARABIA; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 84951335604     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2015.11.003     Document Type: Article

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