如何在中职英语教学中培养学生的自我效能感

如何提高中等职业学校学生的英语水平是每一位中职英语老师面临的重要课题。班杜拉的社会学习理论认为,自我效能感是人类行为的重要控制因素。在影响中职学生英语学习的诸多因素中,自我效能感成为一个不可忽视的重要心理因素,它对学生的成长和发展有着重要的预测作用。因此,从班杜拉自我效能理论的角度提出一些措施来培养学生英语学习的自我效能感,可以改进英语教学和提高学生英语水平。     

中职学生学习效能感影响因素和作用机制研究

中等职业教育学生学习投入度不高、学业不良已成社会的刻板印象。研究表明学习效能感对学业成就具有预测作用,是寻找学业质量影响因素的科学工具。将学习效能感作为职业教育质量监测的工具,实证分析广州中等职业学校学生学习效能感的状况及学习效能感的因果模型,揭示中职学生学习效能感的影响因素和作用机制,探寻提升中职学生学业质量的有效路径。     

高职学前教育专业学生英语学习自我效能感的研究

自我效能是影响学生自主学习的一个内部因素。本文针对高职学前教育专业学生英语学习的自我效能感较低,对提高学生自我效能感的必要性和如何培养学生自我效能感提出一些可行性策略。     

信息技术教学中学生自我效能感的培养与发展

自我效能感是影响学生学习质量的重要因素.学生自我效能感越强,学习的自信心越强,学习中能付出更多的努力并持之以恒,直到达到目标.本文结合信息技术教学实践,分析了信息技术教学中影响学生自我效能感的因素,给出了信息技术教学中建立与培养学生自我效能感的方法与措施.     

浅析英语网络自主学习环境下的自我效能感培养

自我效能感是影响大学英语自主学习尤其是网络环境下自主学习的一个重要因素。本课题旨在大外英语改革网络自主学习模式下,对非英语专业学生的网络自主学习能力及评估体系进行研究,将自我效能感这一影响学生自主学习的内在因素提到重要的位置,让教师多鼓励、表扬学生,并采用以学生为中心的内在评估方式——自我效能感评估来帮助学生形成对自己积极肯定的评价,将会促进学生利用计算机网络进行自主学习。     

浅谈学生的学习自我效能感及其培养

学习自我效能感是影响学生学习成绩的一个重要非智力因素,对学习有着重要影响。培养学习自我效能感是提高学生学习成绩的重要前提和基础,是学生学会学习的重要基础,同时也是影响学生学习过程中的心身反应过程。因此,在学生的学习中应注重对自我效能感的培养。     

在信息技术教学中培养学生的自我效能感

在学生成长的过程中,自我效能感是影响学习质量的重因素。学生的自我效能感越强,其自信心也就越强,在学习中愿意付出更多的努力。本文介绍了自我效能感的基本概念,并结合教学实践,对信息技术课程教学中影响学生自我效能感的相关因素进行了分析,提出了在信息技术课教学过程中培养学生自我效能感的有效方法。     

大学英语教学中关于学习自我效能感的培养

对于大学生来说,其学习自我效能感,是影响英语学习的主要内在影响因素之一.一些研究表明,大学生的学习自我效能感与英语学习成绩呈显著正相关.本文意在通过讨论教师如何在教学过程中培养学生的学习自我效能感,探索教师培养和提高学生学习自我效能感的途径.     

自我效能感在英语听力教学中的意义

自我效能感是由著名心理学家班杜拉在1977年首次提出的。根据他的解释,自我效能感是指个体相信自己有能力完成某种或某类任务,是个体的能力自信心在某些活动中的具体体现。它会影响到人们的行为选择、努力程度、行为的持久性、情感反应模式和思维模式。？自我效能感在学生学习中同样会发生作用。一般认为自我效能感可以在三个方面对学生的学习产生影响。首先,自我效能感影响学生学习目标和任务的设定。     

在高职英语教学中增强学生的学习自我效能感

学习自我效能感是影响高职学生学习成绩的重要因素之一.文章介绍了学习自我效能感及其功能,分析了英语教学中增强高职生学习自我效能感的必要性,并提出了英语教学中提高高职生学习自我效能感的方法.     

Motivational and affective determinants of self-regulatory strategy use in elementary school mathematics

The aim of the study was to investigate the relationships between elementary students’ reported use of self-regulatory strategies in mathematics and their motivational and affective determinants. Participants of the study were 344 fifth- and sixth-grade Greek students. Students were asked to complete self-reported measures regarding the strategies they use to self-regulate mathematics learning, their achievement goals in relation to mathematics, their self-efficacy concerning mathematics learning and achievement, the value they attribute to mathematics as a subject domain and their enjoyment of mathematics learning. Structural equation modelling confirmed a mediation model, that is, students’ mathematics self-efficacy, value beliefs about mathematics and enjoyment mediated the effects of achievement goals on reported strategy use. Results are discussed in terms of implications for elementary students’ self-regulated learning skills.     

Trait procrastination,self-efficacy and achievement goals: the mediation role of boredom coping strategies

Limited research has examined the mediational role of coping strategy in students’ motivation and procrastination. In this study, we examined the relationships among self-efficacy, achievement goals, boredom coping strategies and procrastination with 506 Chinese college students. Data were collected via questionnaires. Structural equation modelling results showed that both self-efficacy and approach goals significantly predicted approach-oriented coping strategies, and avoidance goals significantly predicted avoidance-oriented coping strategies. Among the different types of boredom coping strategies, only behavioural avoidance coping strategy significantly predicted procrastination. Hence, the mediating link was only found between avoidance goals, behavioural avoidance coping strategy and procrastination. Implications of the mediating role of behavioural avoidance coping strategy in the goal-procrastination relationship were further discussed.     

What motivates students? A study on the effects of teacher leadership and students’ self-efficacy

Students’ educational motivation is significant for performance and achieving learning, but little is known about what fuels such motivation. Educational motivation is regarded as the drive and inner state that energise educational activities, facilitate learning and channel behaviour towards achieving educational goals. Educational motivation paves the way for students to learn and acquire the knowledge that is essential for successful study outcomes. This article aims to explore what determines students’ educational motivation. Building on the self-determination theory, we modelled the influence of teachers’ leadership and students’ self-efficacy on students’ educational motivation. We used survey data from a sample of upper secondary school students in Sweden; we received a total of 993 answers, equal to a response rate of 74%. The results show that students’ self-efficacy and teacher leadership are of extreme importance for students’ educational motivation, and that highly efficacious students lose most educational motivation when the teacher’s leadership is poor. The results thus support the importance of teachers’ leadership for encouraging student learning.     

The Role of Age and Occupational Future Time Perspective in Workers’ Motivation to Learn

The purpose of this paper is to better understand the relationship between employees’ chronological age and their motivation to learn, by adopting a lifespan perspective. Based on socioemotional selectivity theory, we suggest that occupational future time perspective mediates the relationship between age and motivation to learn. In accordance with expectancy-value and self-efficacy theories, motivation to learn was operationalized as employees’ learning motivational beliefs (i.e., learning self-efficacy and learning value). To test our model, survey data were obtained from 560 workers between the ages of 21 to 64 years. Results demonstrated the importance of taking workers’ occupational future time perspective into account to explain relationships between age and learning motivational beliefs.     

Self-regulated learning in the museum: understanding the relationship of visitor's goals,learning strategies,and appraisals

Self-regulated learning (SRL) in the museum was explored by 2 investigations. The first one investigated 233 visitors on their goals and intended learning strategies by questionnaire before they visited the science museum. Results indicated visitors’ learning goals can predict their intended deep-learning strategy. Moreover, visitors can be clustered into 4 groups and their cluster identity can also predict the intended learning strategies. The second investigation asked 244 visitors about their actual learning strategies and motivational appraisals (self-efficacy and control beliefs) after visiting. In all, 5 kinds of learning strategies were found: elaborating, help-seeking, effort-making, reorganizing, and surface-learning. These strategies can further predict their motivational appraisals. The characteristics of SRL in the informal learning context were discussed.     

A Multilevel Analysis of Students’ Science Achievements in Relation to their Self-Regulation,Epistemological Beliefs,Learning Environment Perceptions,and Teachers’ Personal Characteristics

This study adopted a cross-sectional and correlational research design in an attempt to add our understanding of student- and teacher-level factors that help explain variability in students’ science achievement to the existing literature. More specifically, the present article examined students’ science achievement in relation to their constructivist learning environment perceptions, epistemological beliefs, and self-regulation as well as their science teachers’ characteristics. Data were gathered from both 137 science teachers and their 3281 seventh grade students via administering self-report questionnaires. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) analysis was conducted to analyze the two-level data (student level and teacher level). Students’ learning environment perceptions, epistemological beliefs, achievement goals, and self-regulation constituted student-level data while teachers’ self-efficacy, achievement goals, and epistemological beliefs constituted teacher-level data. The findings indicated that students’ constructivist learning environment perceptions were significant predictors of their science achievement. Additionally, students with sophisticated epistemological beliefs appeared to be more successful in science. Also, performance avoidance goals were negatively related to science achievement. Among teacher-level variables, teachers’ self-efficacy and sophisticated epistemological beliefs were found to be positively linked to students’ science achievement.     

Students’ transition from elementary to high school and changes of the relationship between motivation and academic performance

336 students, 186 girls and 150 boys were met at the end of the school year, both at grade six and at Secondary one, in order to examine the impact of the transition from elementary to secondary school on various motivational variables. Analyses showed changes in self-efficacy beliefs and learning goals, whatever students’ level of achievement and gender. However, self-efficacy beliefs appeared as the most powerful predictor of academic performance at both school levels. In addition, the pattern of relations between academic performance and the variables examined was relatively similar at both times of measurement. The discussion focuses on changes in self-efficacy beliefs and learning goals and on their relations to academic performance.     

Effects of a memory strategy on second-graders’ performance and self-efficacy

This study investigated the mediating effects of learning a memory strategy on second-graders’ performance of a memory task and their self-efficacy for the task. Specifically, second graders were taught a strategy for organizing words into categories to increase their ability to remember lists of words. Their predictions of how many words they would subsequently remember were taken as a measure of self-efficacy for the task. The trained students not only outperformed their untrained counterparts on the memory task, but also predicted higher levels of future performance, indicating that their efficacy for the task had increased. Quantitative data were collected to measure students’ predictions and performance, while qualitative data provided insight into students’ strategy use and ability to articulate their actions.     

‘I was always the good girl’: the twofold silencing of teachers as a force fostering a low sense of professional self-efficacy

The purpose of this study was to expand the theory of self-efficacy in relation to feminist perspectives by exploring the factors and the dynamics that foster a low sense of professional self-efficacy in Israeli female teachers. Listening to their voices enables us to learn about their past experiences in the nuclear family and consider their repercussions for professional self-efficacy in the present. Fourteen teachers who were identified as having a low sense of professional self-efficacy participated in in-depth open interviews. Data were analysed according to Grounded Theory methodology, implementing the axial coding procedure. Findings indicated that these teachers’ sense of professional self-efficacy was affected by their experience of having been silenced by the dominant authority figures in two spheres of life: the nuclear family (parents) and the workplace (school principal). Similar patterns in the two spheres and their implications for teachers and principals are discussed.     

Academic hardiness and academic self-efficacy in graduate studies

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the study was to measure graduate students’ academic hardiness (GSAH) and academic self-efficacy (GSASE) and to examine the relationships between the two. A total of 202 graduate students across disciplines were recruited to complete two questionnaires (GSAH and GSASE). Results of exploratory factor analyses showed that the GSAH and GSASE were reliable for assessing graduate students’ academic hardiness and academic self-efficacy. Comparing master’s and doctoral students’ scores in the GSAH and GSASE scales, we found that doctoral students outperformed master’s students. The findings also revealed that three dimensions of GSAH (commitment, control of affect, and challenge) were strong predictors of graduate students’ academic self-efficacy. These results confirm and strengthen the relation between graduate students’ academic hardiness and academic self-efficacy. This study calls attention to graduate students’ ability to recognize and appraise causes of their failure and to learn how to overcome academic difficulties.