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Pajares, Frank; Johnson, Margaret J.; Usher, Ellen L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2007
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of Albert Bandura's four hypothesized sources of self-efficacy on students' writing self-efficacy beliefs (N = 1256) and to explore how these sources differ as a function of gender and academic level (elementary, middle, high). Consistent with the tenets of self-efficacy theory, each of the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Middle School Students, Females, Epistemology
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Pajares, Frank; Johnson, Margaret J. – Psychology in the Schools, 1996
Study tested influence of writing self-efficacy, writing apprehension, and writing aptitude on 181 ninth-grade students. Aptitude and self-efficacy had direct effects on performance. Girls and boys did not differ in aptitude or performance, but girls reported lower writing self-efficacy. Native English-speaking Hispanic students had lower aptitude…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Females, Grade 9, High School Students