ERIC Number: EJ987453
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 18
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Identifying Events that Impact Self-Efficacy in Physics Learning
Sawtelle, Vashti; Brewe, Eric; Goertzen, Renee Michelle; Kramer, Laird H.
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, v8 n2 p020111-1-020111-18 Jul-Dec 2012
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. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Physics, Self Efficacy, Teaching Methods, Video Technology, Methods, Problem Solving, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students, College Science, Motion, Mastery Learning, Observation, Social Influences, Physiology, Models
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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