ERIC Number: ED523527
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 98
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ISBN: ISBN-978-1-1243-1948-3
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Relationship of Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Urban Public School Students to Performance on a High-Stakes Mathematics Test
Afolabi, Kolajo A.
ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of "self-efficacy" for "Enlisting Social Resources, Self-Regulatory Efficacy, self-efficacy" for "Self-Regulated Learning," and "self-efficacy" for "Academic Achievement" (Bandura's Children's "Self-Efficacy Scale," 2006) of urban public school students to performance on the high stakes Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) math test. A survey questionnaire was administered to eighty three participants and the data, analyzed using linear regression, conformed to the assumptions of "Independence," Linearity," Normality," and "Homoscedasticity." "Self-Regulatory Efficacy," "Academic Achievement", and Socio-economic Status were statistically significant bivariate predictors of performance on MCAS math test. Self-Regulatory Efficacy was the only consistent statistically significant predictor of MCAS math performance. Gender interaction with "Self-Regulatory Efficacy" was statistically significant in isolation but was not when other variables were accounted for. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
Descriptors: Public Schools, Socioeconomic Status, Self Efficacy, Mathematics Tests, Regression (Statistics), Academic Achievement, Urban Schools, High Stakes Tests, Questionnaires, Predictor Variables, Self Control, Gender Differences, Mathematics Achievement
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System
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