knowledge, skill or performance pursued by any individual for personal reasons employing any means, in any place at any time at any age. • Teacher-Directed Learning (TDL). Teachers or other authorities choose what is learned, why it is to be learned, how it is to be learned, when, where and at what age. • The SDL Spectrum The spectrum refers to degrees of SDL ranging from entirely teacher-directed learning (TDL) to SDL as defined above. The spectrum includes the following stages or degrees of movement toward SDL. • Incidental Self-Directed Learning. The occasional introduction of SDL activities into courses or programs that are otherwise teacher-directed (e.g. individual projects, stations, or brief introduction of any other forms of SDL on the spectrum). • Teaching Students to Think Independently. Courses or programs that emphasize the personal pursuit of meaning through exploration, inquiry, problem solving and creative activity (e.g. debates, case studies, investigations, trials, dramatizations, fieldwork). • Self-Managed Learning. Courses or programs presented through learning guides that students complete independently. • Self-Planned Learning. Courses or programs in which students pursue course outcomes through activities they design themselves. • Self-Directed Learning. Courses or programs in which students choose the outcomes, design their own activities and pursue them in their own way. • SDL adalah sesuatu proses dimana seseorang memiliki inisiatif, dengan atau tanpa bantuan orang lain, untuk menganalisis kebutuhan belajarnya sendiri, merumuskan tujuan belajarnya sendiri, mengidentifikasi sumber– sumber belajar, memilih dan melaksanakan strategi belajar yang sesuai dan mengevaluasi hasil belajarnya sendiri. Merriam dan Caffarella (1991) mendefinisikan SDL adalah sesuatu metode belajar di mana pelajar mempunyai tanggung jawab yang utama dalam perencanaan, pelaksanakan dan penilaian hasil belajar. • Brockett dan Hiemstra (1991) mengemukakan beberapa pernyataan untuk meluruskan pandangan mengenai SDL yaitu, SDL bersifat kontinuitas, tidak benar SDL mengambarkan suatu proses belajar dalam isolasi, tidak benar SDL menghabiskan lebih banyak waktu daripada kegunaannya, dan tidak benar aktivitas SDL hanya terbatas pada membaca dan menulis. • Bagaimana kesan yang dirasakan secara keseluruhan selama proses konseling?