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Cultivating Self-Efficacy in Adolescent Mothers: A Collaborative Approach.
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Griffin, Nancy C. – Professional School Counseling, 1998
Describes flexibly funded, adolescent parent support program, situated in self-efficacy theory that coordinates an array of services. Optimal development of teen parents and their children is promoted. The effect of expectations on outcomes is discussed from research and theory. Program components and agreements are presented; funding is…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Counseling Techniques, Early Parenthood, Educational Finance
The Relationship of Trainee Self-Efficacy to the Process and Outcome of Career Counseling.
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Heppner, Mary J.; Multon, Karen D.; Gysbers, Norman C.; Ellis, Carrie A.; Zook, Catherine E. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1998
The role of counselor trainees' self-efficacy is related to the career counseling process and outcomes with actual clients in a natural setting. Twenty-four counselor trainees saw 55 clients in three to 12 sessions. Positive results, obtained on several measures of process and outcome, show a complex relationship to self-efficacy. (EMK)
Descriptors: Adults, Career Counseling, Counseling Psychology, Counselor Training
Enhancing Student Academic and Health Functioning: A Self-Regulatory Perspective.
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Zimmerman, Barry J. – School Psychology Quarterly, 1996
Traces a program of research on students' self-regulation of their academic and health functioning from initial operational definitions to training and intervention studies. This body of evidence has shown that students' use of self-regulatory processes, such as learning strategies, goal setting, self-monitoring, and self-efficacy beliefs, predict…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Health, Learning Strategies
African American Female Adolescent Identity Development: A Three-Dimensional Perspective.
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Stevens, Joyce West – Child Welfare, 1997
Claims that African American female adolescents have unique identity issues that structure developmental tasks. Uses data from a longitudinal study to explicate a three-dimensional model of the identity developmental process. Describes adolescents' development of skillful, unique, expressionistic, and assertive styles of dealing with perceived…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns
Increasing Internal Locus of Control for a Disadvantaged Group: A Computer Intervention.
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Bernhard, Judith K.; Siegel, Linda S. – Computers in the Schools, 1994
Discussion of locus of control (LOC), gender, and mathematics and technical subjects focuses on a study of preschool girls and boys that investigated the effects of a LOGO program on efficacy and LOC. Highlights include treatment of experimental and control groups; gender differences; parent questionnaires; and pretests and posttests. (69…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
Enhancing Self-Efficacy for Computer Technologies through the Use of Positive Classroom Experiences.
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Ertmer, Peggy A.; And Others – Educational Technology Research and Development, 1994
Describes a study of undergraduates completing electronic mail and word processing tasks that investigated the effects of experience on attitudes toward computers and judgment of confidence, or self-efficacy. Use of the Computer Technologies Survey is discussed, and treatment of experimental and control groups is described. Survey instrument and…
Descriptors: Computer Anxiety, Computer Assisted Instruction, Correlation, Electronic Mail
Making Computer Instruction Accessible: Familiar Analogies for Female Novices.
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Russon, A. E.; And Others – Computers in Human Behavior, 1994
Describes a study that investigated how to teach computer skills to undergraduate female novice users through the design of an instructional manual that facilitated learning computer skills and increased computer self-efficacy by using familiar analogies. Treatment of the experimental and control groups is explained, and measurement techniques are…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Females