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Yong-Hwee Nah; Rachel Li-En Ng – School Mental Health, 2025
This study explored factors associated with teachers' self-efficacy beliefs in delivering a Tier 2 Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT)-based programme. Participants consisted of 103 teachers (mean age = 38.0 years, SD = 9.63) currently teaching in Singapore mainstream schools. Survey data on self-efficacy beliefs for teaching in general, teachers'…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes, Cognitive Restructuring, Behavior Modification
Sherman, Robert W. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quantitative study sought to examine the role of self-efficacy on the enrollment decisions made by women for a second year of high school physics. Not enough information is known about why there is a significant decrease in the proportion of women in second year high school physics programs after their introductory year. This study took place…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Womens Education, Females, High School Students
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Harri Pitkäniemi; Riikka Hirvonen; Johanna Heikka; Katja Suhonen – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The aim of the study is to comprehensively analyze the interrelationships between teacher efficacy, the sources of self-efficacy, and implementation of early childhood education (ECE). The assumption is that according to socio-cognitive theory, source categories predict the self-efficacy of educational staff. According to a few previous research…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers
Kurfist, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This qualitative, interview-based research study explores how undergraduate students at a single research university make meaning of their experiences in curricular and co-curricular university entrepreneurship programming. The study focuses on the developmental relationship between entrepreneurship education and feelings of entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Entrepreneurship, Self Efficacy
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Gonzalez-DeHass, Alyssa R.; Furner, Joseph M.; Vásquez-Colina, María D.; Morris, John D. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2022
Often pre-service early childhood and elementary teachers, many who are female, feel they are not good at math and appear uncomfortable at the prospect of teaching math. Given the influence pre-service teachers' attitudes toward math might have on their learning, as well as that of their future students, examining the precursors of mathematical…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Goal Orientation, Females, Predictor Variables
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Özcan, Bahadir; Kültür, Yusuf Ziya – SAGE Open, 2021
In school settings, sources of self-efficacy have the potential to directly and indirectly influence performance. The problem of this study is the direct relationship between sources of self-efficacy and achievement. In connection with this problem, the impact of sources of mathematics self-efficacy on high school senior students' mathematics test…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests, Self Efficacy, Predictor Variables
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Sangkawetai, Cheeraporn; Neanchaleay, Jariya; Koul, Ravinder; Murphy, Elizabeth – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2020
The goal of this study is to identify the relationship between K-12 teachers' self-efficacy beliefs, classroom goal structure and use of instructional strategies. The study also aims to determine if there is variance in the relationship between these constructs for primary versus secondary school teachers. Data collection involved completion of a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Self Efficacy, Teaching Methods
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Honicke, Toni; Broadbent, Jaclyn; Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Matthew – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
Within the context of Pintrich's self-regulated learning model, recent reviews of the literature show that motivational factors are the strongest predictors of academic performance. Even so, gaps remain in terms of which goal orientation constructs area most strongly related to performance, and whether academic self-efficacy is involved in such…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, Mastery Learning
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Hier, Bridget O.; Mahony, Kristen E. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2018
Although intervention procedures exist for improving elementary-aged students' writing fluency skills, less is known about how their writing self-efficacy develops upon participating in these procedures. In this study, 117 second grade students participated in an evidence-based performance feedback writing intervention. Students reported higher…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Grade 2, General Education, Feedback (Response)
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Hong, Wonjoon; Bernacki, Matthew L.; Perera, Harsha N. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Achievement motivation theories propose that student motivation is composed of multiple factors. Models of self-regulated learning adopt this assumption and further articulate that multiple metacognitive processes--planning, monitoring learning, and self-evaluation--are essential to guide progress toward a learning goal. Learners' motivations are…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Achievement Need, Student Motivation, Goal Orientation
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Zientek, Linda Reichwein; Fong, Carlton J.; Phelps, Julie M. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2019
The need to improve student success in community colleges has resulted in a growing interest in developmental mathematics. Yet there remains a need to understand the motivations and beliefs of developmental mathematics students in order to cultivate their success. Self-efficacy has been identified to be a predictor of student success. Little is…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Remedial Mathematics
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Kiran, Dekant; Sungur, Semra; Yerdelen, Sündüs – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the student and teacher-level predictors of Turkish middle school students' engagement in science classes. Students' engagement was examined in terms of agentic, behavioral, cognitive, and emotional engagement. The participants of the study were 134 Turkish science teachers and their 3394 grade 7…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers
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Brown, Christia Spears – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
Sexualized gender stereotypes (SGS) include the belief that girls should singularly prioritize their sexualized attractiveness for the attention and approval of boys. By elementary school, boys and girls perceive girls' sexualized attractiveness to be incompatible with intelligence and competence. In the current 2-year study, we examined whether…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Sexuality, Aesthetics, Grade 7
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Hee, Ong Choon; Ping, Lim Lee; Rizal, Adriana Mohd; Kowang, Tan Owee; Fei, Goh Chin – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2019
This study intends to explore the relationship between goal orientation, information literacy self-efficacy and lifelong learning outcomes of the adult learners. This study focuses on adult learners as they are actively participating in the development of the country socio-economy and recognized as the potential contributors towards the generation…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Outcomes of Education, Goal Orientation
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Yildizli, Hülya – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2019
Teachers' goal orientations for teaching are one of the most important motivational beliefs affecting instructional processes. This study investigated the structural relationship between teachers' goal orientations for teaching and their attitudes towards their job through measures of self-efficacy and burnout. 495 teachers (working in primary,…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Burnout, Comparative Analysis
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