The Effect of Concept Map Training on Increasing Self-Directed Learning in Thinking and Commercial Media Literacy Course

Subject Areas : Agriculture Marketing and Commercialization

Nabiollah Malekzadeh ¹ , Alireza Ghasemizad ² , Abdul Mohammad Taheri ³ , Pari Mashayekh ⁴

1 - Department of Educational Administration, Kazerun Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kazerun, Iran,
2 - Department of Educational Administration, Kazerun Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kazerun, Iran,
3 - Department of Educational Administration, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran.
4 - Department of Educational Administration, Kazerun Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kazerun, Iran

Received: 2020-07-30 Accepted : 2020-12-10 Published : 2020-12-30

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