directed study

1. 1.

   a course of study that is supervised and controlled by a specialist in the subject

   “he registered for directed study”

   “he got credit for directed study”

   “he did directed study”

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Questions about directed study

What does directed study mean?

directed study means "a course of study that is supervised and controlled by a specialist in the subject".

Is directed study a common word?

directed study is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.