ERIC Number: EJ1212942
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0671
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Predicting Self-Efficacy in Test Preparation: Gender, Value, Anxiety, Test Performance, and Strategies
Journal of Educational Research, v112 n1 p61-71 2019
Considerable evidence indicates that self-efficacy, task value, anxiety, and the use of language learning strategies are related. However, there is currently an insufficient understanding about their relations in high-stakes testing contexts. The author aimed to investigate how well social factors, test value, anxiety, test performance, and learning strategies predict high school students' self-efficacy in preparing for the English listening test as part of the University Entrance Examination in Taiwan. This research involved a large-scale questionnaire survey and a collection of students' English test scores. The participants were 636 students in Grade 12 of high school in Taiwan. A quantitative analysis of the questionnaire was conducted via hierarchical regression analysis. The results show that students' recent English test performance and test anxiety were two strong predictors of self-efficacy in preparing for the high-stakes test. In addition, resource management and metacognitive listening strategies had better predictive power over prior English level and test value.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 12, Predictor Variables, Self Efficacy, Test Preparation, Gender Differences, Test Anxiety, Test Wiseness, Learning Strategies, High Stakes Tests, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Listening Comprehension Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Scores, Metacognition
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Grade 12; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Taiwan
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