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Peer reviewedPajares, Frank; Johnson, Margaret J. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1994
Investigates the relationships among self-confidence about writing, expected outcomes, writing apprehension, general self-confidence, and writing performance over one semester. Finds that students' beliefs about their own composition skills and the preperformance measure were the only significant predictors. (SR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Writing Achievement
Download full textPajares, Frank; Johnson, Margaret J. – 1995
Path analysis was used to test the influence of writing self-efficacy, self-concept, apprehension, and aptitude on the essay-writing performance of 181 ninth-grade students in a public high school in the southwestern United States. A model that also included gender accounted for 53% of the variance in performance. As hypothesized, both aptitude…
Descriptors: Grade 9, High Schools, Hispanic Americans, Path Analysis
