ERIC Number: EJ1185224
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Dec
Pages: 22
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ISSN: EISSN-0740-2708
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Academic Self-Efficacy, Educational Motives and Aspects of the Prison Sentence as Predictors for Participation in Prison Education
Roth, Beate Buanes; Westrheim, Kariane; Jones, Lise; Manger, Terje
Journal of Correctional Education, v68 n3 p19-40 Dec 2017
The purpose of this study is to gain knowledge about how prisoners' academic self-efficacy, educational motives, and aspects of their prison sentences affect their educational participation while incarcerated. The article reports on data from a national survey on prisoners with Norwegian citizenship. The results revealed that prisoners who had higher scores on self-efficacy for self-regulated learning and mathematics self-efficacy were more likely than those with lower scores to participate in education. The reverse was, however, true for literacy self-efficacy, showing that with higher scores, participation was less likely. With regard to educational motives, higher scores on the educational motive of competence building predicted participation in education. Prisoners sentenced to more than three months were more likely to participate than those serving shorter sentences. Likewise, prisoners who had served between one-third and two-thirds of the sentence participated more often than others. The implications of the results will be discussed.
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Self Efficacy, Learning Motivation, Institutionalized Persons, Law Enforcement, Participation, National Surveys, Foreign Countries, Influences, Adults, Statistical Analysis, Adult Education, Regression (Statistics)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Norway
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