engleski

Self-efficacy of the first year ICT students

The purpose of this study is to research and validate items of Bandura’s social cognitive theory of self-efficacy among ICT students of the first year at Faculty of organization and informatics at the University of Zagreb. Our research was conducted in 2009/2010 year in summer semester in mathematics on the sample of 202 students. After confirmatory factor analysis we have got five factors which can influence students’ self-efficacy: mastery experience with social persuasion, psychological states, vicarious experience, grade and family support. We have found that there are differences in self-efficacy for those students who passed the mathematics exam and those who failed. There are three common factors which influence self-efficacy of both successful and less successful students – mastery experience with social persuasion, psychological states, and vicarious experience. Two remaining factors are grade factor influences successful students’ self-efficacy, and family support factor influences self-efficacy of less successful students. There are many reasons why is self-efficacy important for school and university students and one of the most important is that academic self-efficacy is the good predictor of academic outcomes.

mathematics; self-efficacy; mastery experience; vicarious experience; social persuasion; psychological states

nije evidentirano