Medical students' self-efficacy in problem-based learning and its relationship with self-regulated learning

Medical Education Online

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Demirören, Meral ^a   Turan, Sevgi ^b   Öztuna, Derya ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Medical education; Medical students; Problem based learning; Self efficacy; Self regulated learning

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CURRICULUM; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MEDICINE; MONITORING; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; RESPONSIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SKILL; STUDY SKILLS; UNIVERSITY; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONTROL; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; SELF EFFICACY; SELF-CONTROL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85007062158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10872981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/meo.v21.30049     Document Type: Article

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