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Peer reviewedHolmes, Lynda A. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2001
Suggests that students can become motivated and engaged to improve their writing through guided interactions that target their affective, social, and cognitive capabilities. Presents fictional case scenarios developed from first- and second-year college students' comments about their writing to help students assess their perspectives on writing,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Higher Education, Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes
Predictive Utility and Causal Influence of the Writing Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Elementary Students.
Download full textPajares, Frank; Valiante, Gio – 1996
According to self-efficacy theorists, people's judgments of what they can accomplish are influential arbiters in human agency and, as such, powerful determinants of their behavior. In large part, this is because these self-efficacy beliefs are said to act as mediators between other acknowledged influences on behavior, such as skill, ability,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests, Elementary Education, Gender Issues
