The Journal of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children

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Appendix 1 Interview schedule Questions organised into issues related to SDL The World Council for Gifted and Talented Children Issue 1: Knowledge of SDL Q1. What do you think SDL is all about? Q17.Are you good at being self-directed as you work on some activities, and why?; Q21.Do you know anyone who is really good at SDL? Can you say what the person does? Q11.Do you think you can get better at being self-directed? Explanations given by the students of the SDL process Q11. If you were being self-directed in learning about something, what sorts of things would you do? Q12. How do you think a self-directed learner would check what they are doing? Q13.Do you think a self-directed learner would plan how they will use the time they have to find out about a topic? Q15. What could help you get better at being self-directed? Q20. When you have finished learning about something, do you usually think about what you did and what worked well as you were learning? Issue 2: Attitudes of the students to SDL Q14. Do you think you can get better at being SDL? Q18. Do you think self-directed learning is important? Q22. Is there anything else that you would like to say about SDL? Preferred way of learning Q9. When you need to find out about something, what works best for you, to do it on your own or with friends and why? Q10. Do you have a favourite way to learn about things? Issue 3: SDL at school Q2. How do you get to be a self-directed learner? Q3. When you are at school and you want to work out how to do something what do you do? Q7. What about when you make a mistake at school? SDL out-of-school Q4 When you are not at school and you want to work out how to do something what do you do? Q5.What do you think makes someone good at working out how to learn about things at home? Q6. If you are working on something at home and you make a mistake, what do you do about it? Comparison of SDL at school and out-of- school. Q8 Are there differences in the way you learn about things at school and the way you learn about things at home? Q16. Are you usually more of a self-directed learner at home or at school, and why? Q19. Is SDL important for learning at home or at school? 120 Gifted and Talented International – 26(1), August, 2011; and 26(2), December, 2011.
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