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Peer reviewedPajares, 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
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
