Academic self-efficacy encompasses judgments regarding one's ability to perform academic tasks and is correlated with achievement and persistence. This study describes changes in biology self-efficacy during a first-year course. Students (n = 614) were given the Biology Self-Efficacy Scale at the beginning and end of the semester. The instrument consisted of 21 questions ranking confidence in p...

ôbjective: self-efficacy beliefs determine how people feel, think, motivate themselves and behave. regarding to similar findings it is supposed that concept of self efficacy has a general role on mental health. the present study focused on examining the relationships between self-efficacy and symptoms of depression, anxiety, worry and social avoidance in a large sample of normal students (n=549...

This large-scale longitudinal cohort study examines the extent to which mathematics self-concept and academic self-efficacy mediate the relation between mathematical performance at the end of primary school (Grade 6) and the end of lower secondary school (Grade 9) in an educational system with early tracking. The study involves 843 students in the Netherlands, where tracking is employed from th...

objective: the present study aimed at investigating the relationship between attachment styles and self-efficacy in blind and non-blind female high school students in tehran. methods: the statistical population consisted of all female students studying in grades one or two in tehran girl’s high schools, in the academic year 2014. the study design was causal-comparative, conducted on 120 subject...

ods of measuring the construct, the impact of test anxiety on academic and standardized test der differences in self-reported efficacy, esteem, discomfort, and task avoidance were a function of In this study, students with high, medium, and low levels of cognitive test anxiety instructions straight. 4. I tend to freeze. Schunk (1988) stated that self-regulated learning consists of attention to ...

Previous work has documented that attachment security is systematically linked with child adjustment and academic competence. This study aims to examine the associations between parents' own report of anxious and avoidant attachment and their children's report of trait anxiety and academic self-efficacy in math and Turkish literature courses. Mothers (N=1539) and fathers (N=1436) from four citi...

Reading academic materials is necessary for acquiring knowledge and new insights to perform well in all demands. Nevertheless, many students were still struggling understanding texts due their high level of complexity so avoided reading. Thus, self-efficacy as a motivating force continuous effort the reading process must be activated. This study aimed investigate undergraduate students’ percept...

Despite the popularity and importance of MOOCs in global education recent years, they have not become focus self-efficacy studies. In addition, most available MOOC research resides Western economies, Asian countries. No studies up to this point explored change engineering student before after finish a or relationship between students’ academic performance learning environment. This present stud...

Although writing self-efficacy has been a productive line of research for several decades, no prior measure focused on students’ integrating information across multiple sources when producing an academic text. To fill this gap in existing the measurement motivation, we designed targeting extent to which students are confident that they can write text integrates content from different sources. I...