ERIC Number: EJ1087339
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Jan
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Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Their Sources in Undergraduate Computing Disciplines: An Examination of Gender and Persistence
Lin, Guan-Yu
Journal of Educational Computing Research, v53 n4 p540-561 Jan 2016
This study has two central purposes: First, it examines not only the roles of gender and persistence in undergraduate computing majors' learning self-efficacy, computer self-efficacy, and programming self-efficacy but also Bandura's hypothesized sources of self-efficacy; second, it examines the influence of sources of efficacy on the three aforementioned self-efficacy beliefs as a whole and as functions of gender and persistence levels. The results indicate that persistence levels had a significant effect on all the self-efficacy beliefs and sources of efficacy except computer self-efficacy and physiological state. However, these students' self-efficacy beliefs and sources of efficacy did not vary by gender. Moreover, the sources of efficacy differently influenced the three self-efficacy beliefs not only as a whole but also as functions of gender and persistence levels.
Descriptors: Sex Role, Persistence, Self Efficacy, Beliefs, Undergraduate Students, Computer Attitudes, Programming, Disproportionate Representation, Computers, Programming Languages, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Questionnaires, College Students, Data Analysis, Correlation
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Taiwan
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire
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