Interrelations between self-efficacy and learning approaches: a developmental approach

Title
Interrelations between self-efficacy and learning approaches: a developmental approach
Publication Date
2011
Author(s)
Phan, Huy
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3066-4647
Email: hphan2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:hphan2
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/01443410.2010.545050
UNE publication id
une:10158
Abstract
Two major theoretical frameworks in educational psychology, namely student approaches to learning (SAL) and self-efficacy have been used extensively to explain and predict students' learning and academic achievement. There is a substantial body of research studies, for example, that documents the positive interrelations between individuals' self-efficacy beliefs and their approaches to learning. In particular, evidence ascertained from structural equation analyses suggests both a positive sense of academic self-efficacy and deep learning approach combined to influence students' academic achievement. More recently, albeit limited, research has focused on the study of developmental changes of these two constructs over time. As a contribution to this approach, we used latent growth curve modelling (LGM) to explore the initial states and trajectories of self-efficacy and the two major learning approaches - surface and deep - over a two-year period. Furthermore, we regressed both gender and academic experience as possible external correlates that could account for the change in the two theoretical frameworks. Two hundred and fifty-two (116 females, 136 males) university students were administered Likert-scale inventories on three occasions. SPSS AMOS showed a few major findings - notably, for example, the negative impact of academic experience on the change in self-efficacy and the positive impact of academic experience on the initial states of self-efficacy and surface learning approach.
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Citation
Educational Psychology, 31(2), p. 225-246
ISSN
1469-5820
0144-3410
Start page
225
End page
246

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