Purpose: Self-efficacy has been argued theoretically and shown empirically to be an essential construct for students’ improved learning outcomes. However, th...
Not quite. It certainly inspires it, but it’s more like seeing and knowing you can do something - as opposed to just beliving that you could if you wanted to or tried really hard.
Psychologically this distinction is kinda important, because doing something lowers the mental burden of doing it again. If you are very self confident you are more eager to try stuff, but you may still fail and never touch it again. That is precisely because you didn’t get to experience that self-efficacy, or even worse: failure (which is kind of anti-self-efficacy).
Yeah that whole abstract could have just said: Students who learned math in high school are more confident when they take the same math classes later in college.
I tested out of the basic math programs that our liberal arts college required for first year students on the first day. We were allowed to use our Ti-82s and any formulas stored on them. This was nearly 30 years ago however.
“Self-Efficacy” I had to look that up.
It’s basically self confidence.
Not quite. It certainly inspires it, but it’s more like seeing and knowing you can do something - as opposed to just beliving that you could if you wanted to or tried really hard.
Psychologically this distinction is kinda important, because doing something lowers the mental burden of doing it again. If you are very self confident you are more eager to try stuff, but you may still fail and never touch it again. That is precisely because you didn’t get to experience that self-efficacy, or even worse: failure (which is kind of anti-self-efficacy).
Thanks. I wasn’t confident enough in my spelling to look it up.
Yeah that whole abstract could have just said: Students who learned math in high school are more confident when they take the same math classes later in college.
I tested out of the basic math programs that our liberal arts college required for first year students on the first day. We were allowed to use our Ti-82s and any formulas stored on them. This was nearly 30 years ago however.
In other words if you’ve done it before it’ll be easier? Wow much science