Journal article
Identifying events that impact self-efficacy in physics learning
Physical review special topics. Physics education research, v 8(2), p020111
28 Sep 2012
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Abstract
We present a method of analyzing the development of self-efficacy in real time using a framework of self-efficacy opportunities (SEOs). Considerable research has shown a connection between self-efficacy, or the confidence in one's own ability to perform a task, and success in science fields. Traditional methods of investigating the development of self-efficacy have required participants to recollect past events. This reliance on participant memory makes it difficult to understand what impact particular events may have on developing self-efficacy in the moment. We use video recordings of three undergraduate Modeling Instruction students solving a physics problem to characterize SEOs in a moment-by-moment analysis. We then validate these characterizations of the development of self-efficacy by reviewing the problem-solving session with the participants and find evidence that the SEOs identified are taken up and impact self-efficacy. This characterization and validation of SEOs in the moment represents a first step towards establishing a methodology for analyzing the development of self-efficacy in real time.
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- Title
- Identifying events that impact self-efficacy in physics learning
- Creators
- Vashti Sawtelle - Florida International UniversityEric Brewe - Florida International UniversityRenee Michelle Goertzen - Florida International UniversityLaird H. Kramer - Florida International University
- Publication Details
- Physical review special topics. Physics education research, v 8(2), p020111
- Publisher
- Amer Physical Soc
- Number of pages
- 18
- Grant note
- 0802184 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000309353300001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84866984466
- Other Identifier
- 991021877486904721
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