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Assessing Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Academic Outcomes: The Case for Specificity and Correspondence.
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Pajares, Frank – 1996
Guidelines regarding self-efficacy assessment are highlighted in the first section of this paper. In the second section, the issue of specificity versus generality of measurement is clarified. And last, preliminary results of a study of eighth graders (n=172) are presented which demonstrate that: (1) the optimal level of specificity of any…
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