Adolescence is often a stressful period during development because it involves a pivotal transition from childhood dependency to adulthood independence and self-sufficiency (Smith, Cowie, & Blades, 1998). One major challenge that adolescents encounter during their teenage years involves acquiring a sense of personal agency in what often seems to be a recalcitrant world. Personal agency refers t...

Challenges and competition are being faced in higher education. Students’ unsatisfactory academic performance dropouts obvious problems worldwide. The “student-centered” pedagogy requires universities to pay attention the needs of students. Research has demonstrated that self-efficacy is a positive psychological variable prevention students becoming academically burnt out withdrawing from their...

Dropping out and poor academic performance have been considered a socio-community problem due to their impact on student development. Several factors studied as determinants in these problems, especially self-efficacy. This study analyzes the relationship between general self-efficacy university students Ecuador. The design is non-experimental, cross-sectional, with population of 190 students. ...

Engagement plays an important role in academic success and the world of work, it is a hallmark optimal learning experience (Bilge, Tuzkol, Dots, & Cetin, 2014). Engaged students usually do well their studies (Kuh, Kinzie, Buckley, Bridges, Hayek, 2007; Salanova, Schaufeli, Martinez, Breso, 2010). Therefore, engagement needed for students, so that objectives process activities can be achieve...

The current study examines the academic self-efficacy of students at risk for attrition in higher education in the north of Israel. The students participated in the STIC (Short-Term Intensive discipline Courses) program also called “learning marathons”, offered in their compulsory subjects in preparation for final exams. The study examined the conditions required for success with academic tasks...