ERIC Number: ED271494
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986-Apr
Pages: 14
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Self-Efficacy for Creative Productivity.
Schack, Gina
The Efficacy Scale for Creative Productivity (ESCreP) was developed to measure students' convictions that they could be creative producers. Self-efficacy, an individual's estimation of ability to perform a behavior, is based upon performance accomplishments, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasion, and emotional or physiological arousal. Three types of activities designed to provide enrichment for gifted students are related to efficacy: (1) exploration of topics; (2) training in processes necessary to carry out investigations; and (3) student-initiated investigations of problems. The 40-item ESCreP was pilot tested with 369 gifted students in grades 4 to 12. Test reliability ranged from .71 to .94. Completion of type 3 activities was the best predictor of creative productivity efficacy scores. Years of participation in the gifted program were also significant, but grade level and sex were not. The six-item Efficacy Scale for Overall Creative Productivity (ESOreP), administered to 294 gifted students is grades 4 to 8, measured efficacy at completing a type 3 project, rather than performing the parts of one. Internal consistency was .78 and test-retest reliability was .56. The relationship between the parts versus whole issue was ambiguous. (Both scales and a combined 46-item test are appended.) (GDC)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Achievement, Attitude Measures, Creativity, Creativity Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities, Evaluation Criteria, Individual Power, Locus of Control, Multiple Regression Analysis, Predictor Variables, Productive Thinking, Self Concept, Self Concept Measures, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Student Attitudes, Test Construction, Test Reliability, Test Validity
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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