The Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale (SDLRS), also known as the Learning Preference Assessment (LPA), was developed by Dr. Lucy M. Guglielmino in 1977 to measure learners' attitudes of and propensity for self-directed learning and has been used extensively since then. Here is the developer's own website on the instrument:
https://www.lpasdlrs.com/main.php#intro
Merriam, Caffarella, & Baumgartner (2007) say it is the most extensively used instrument to measure self-directed learning, but it has been 13 years since they said that so I am wondering if there is anything new that has been used recently, and I'm also just wondering in general what alternatives to this instrument there might be.
Merriam, S., Caffarella, R., & Baumgartner, L. (2007). Learning in adulthood: A comprehensive guide (4th ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Good question I am interested in following the answe
A research team at Durham University recently published a systematic review of assessment tools for metacognition (which overlaps with self-regulated learning, probably more commonly used than self-directed). There were 80 tools in the final analysis, so that should give you a lot of options!
Louise Gascoine was the first author, and she is on ResearchGate, I believe, so contact her if you can't access it from the publishers directly.
https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/rev3.3077?saml_referrer
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