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New educational methods are concerned with the transfer of learning responsibility from the teacher to the learner. Self-study or independent study is one of the active learning methods, that has a significant role in retension
stability of some courses and fields of study.
This research is a semi-experimental study that examInes the effects of
self-study and individual learning of physical education. The data were collected through eight closed questionnaries (240 questions). The statistical population was the physical education graduates of the second semester of the
academic year 1999-2000.
The results indicate that generally, self-study or independent study is more
effective in the graduates' retension. Those who graduated through the self-study or individual study mode had a higher rate of retension as compared
with on-campus students. Such difference is significant from statistical perspective in a = 0.03 level.