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Inviting Confidence in School: Invitations as a Critical Source of the Academic Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Entering Middle School Students
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Usher, Ellen L.; Pajares, Frank – Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice, 2006
The purpose of this study was to examine whether constructs drawn from invitational theory serve as additional sources of self-efficacy beliefs of students in Grade 6 (N = 468). The hypothesized sources and the invitational constructs each correlated with academic self-efficacy. Invitations, mastery experience, and physiological state predicted…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Epistemology, White Students, African American Students
Inviting One's Self and Inviting Others: Influence of Gender, Grade Level, and Gender Orientation.
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Valiante, Gio; Pajares, Frank – Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice, 2002
Seeks to provide a developmental perspective on students' invitations of self and of others using data obtained from cohort groups of students, and to determine whether invitations differ as a function of gender. Inviting one's self decreased as students progressed from grade 6 to 8, with nonsignificant gender based results. (Contains 25…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Peer Relationship, Self Concept, Sex Differences
Inviting Self-Efficacy Revisited: The Role of Invitations in the Lives of Women with Mathematics-Related Careers.
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Pajares, Frank; Zeldin, Amy Lapin – Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice, 1999
Examines personal stories of women to assess whether verbal persuasions and invitations influenced their academic paths. Three themes emerged: (a) invitations and verbal persuasions were instrumental sources for the development of confidence; (b) self-efficacy beliefs fostered resilience to academic and social obstacles; (c) invitations reemerged…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Females, Science Careers
Inviting Self-Efficacy: The Role of Invitations in the Development of Confidence and Competence in Writing.
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Pajares, Frank – Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice, 1994
Researchers agree that academic self-efficacy beliefs are strongly predictive of academic performance. This study investigates four students' perceptions of the evolution of their efficacy beliefs about writing and of the relationship between these beliefs and their writing competence. (JPS)
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Expectation, Higher Education, Qualitative Research