This study examines the mediating role of personal growth initiative in the relationship between academic self-efficacy and engagement by examining gender differences. The novelty of this study lies in its focus on the mediating role of personal growth initiative and its examination of gender differences in the relationship between academic…

Transition into higher education (HE) has received increased interest in recent years, since it represents a challenging period for students. The aim of this study was to further understand the associations between self-efficacy, academic achievements, and regulation in first-year university students during their transition into HE. The…

Bandura proposed 2 constructs as central to agency and motivation: self-efficacy and outcome expectancy. Considerable research has documented the central role that self-efficacy plays in motivation, self-regulation, and learning in educational settings. Outcome expectancy, however, has received less study. This article focuses on clarifying the…

A concept map is a visualisation of a group of related concepts with their relationships identified by directed arrows, which can be viewed as an externalisation of a schema encoded in a learner's long-term memory. Concept maps have become popular learning tools in various educational settings. However, the existing research has not fully explored…

Female students are underrepresented in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) academic courses. The problem is a lack of understanding of how female college students' perceptions of course climate and instruction affect their representation in STEM courses. A gap in the literature exists related to how female…

This study investigated the relationship between mindset and self-efficacy among special education teachers in Region 2 of Texas. While approximately 500,000 students are provided special education services in Texas public schools, special education students perform significantly lower on state assessments in reading and math than their…

Data show an alarming number of novice teachers leaving the education profession within the first five years of teaching. This high turnover has created teacher shortages, negative financial expenses to school districts, and negative impact on student achievement. These ramifications of teacher turnover have concerned educational leaders,…

Objective: Assess academic habits and self-efficacy of college students with serious mental illnesses and explore their relationship with mental health symptoms. Participants: College students with serious mental illnesses. Methods: Baseline data from students recruited for an intervention study were gathered using psychometrically sound…

Background: The development and promotion of educational games are still outpacing knowledge of these games' effects, raising calls for evidence of benefits and challenges. Studies suggest that students and teachers like games, but the payoff of the investment in terms of increased motivation and achievement remains unclear. Objectives: This study…

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the perspectives of novice New York City public school principals to understand if their individualized, in-service novice principal training, either mentoring or coaching, during Year One of their principalships impacted their sense of self-efficacy and influenced their decision to continue or…

Collaborative programming helps improve students' computational thinking and increases their confidence in solving programming problems. However, the effect of collaborative learning is not ideal because it is difficult for students to mobilize metacognition to regulate learning spontaneously. To guide students to effectively regulate the learning…

Research and practice have recognized the importance of informal learning--a specific type of active learning--for higher education contexts. University students learn not only in formally organized courses, but also in a self-directed and intentional way from fellow students, through trial and error, and by reflection. However, there has been a…

Retention and progression issues are complex problems that need to be addressed by the Higher Education sector. This paper views the academic self-efficacy of students as an important matter which is linked to retention and progression. The study employs online student surveys to analyse the differences in self-efficacy among year one students on…

The purpose of the transcendental phenomenological study was to discover the role of adaptive learning programs in closing the learning gaps in mathematics for secondary students in Georgia following the COVID-19 pandemic. The theory guiding this study was that of Bandura's theory on self-efficacy, as it highlights how an individual's experience…

The aim of this study is to test the effect of the flipped learning model in promoting student science teachers' (SSTs) research self-efficacy (RSE) and the predictor role of RSE on achievement grades (AG) in the context of research methods in education course. The study is designed as a multimethod research. The participants were 33 SSTs from…