THE SELF DIRECTED LEARNING READINESS (SDLR) METHOD CORRELATION WITH STUDENTS MOTIVATION

This paper reports the motivation which affected the students' self-learning readiness (so called;”Self Directed Learning Readiness (SDLR)). SDLR is the level of individual selfreadiness and has a very important role in learning process in Faculty of Medicine. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation with SDLR among the underundergraduate medical students at the Faculty of Medicine, Islamic University of North Sumatera (UISU) in 2017. A cross-sectional design,with simple random sampling technique, was carried out to test the hypothesis. The data obtained were showing that ; from the 198 respondents, those had the intrinsic motivation were 110 people (55.6%); 88 people (44.4%) unmotivated, Thus on extrinsic motivation test; as many as 100 people (50.5%) motivated and 98 people (49.5%) unmotivated. On SDLR the number of respondents whose were classified as good and bad has the same number of 99 people (50%).Chi-square hypothesis test showed that there was a significant relationship between intrinsic motivation with SDLR with p value = 0.001 and there was a significant relationship between extrinsic motivation with SDLR with p value = 0.000.So it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation with SDLR on undergraduate medical students at the Faculty of Medicine, Islamic University of North Sumatera 2017.