ERIC Number: EJ1315899
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 13
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ISSN: EISSN-2205-0795
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First-Year Students' Academic Self-Efficacy Calibration: Differences by Task Type, Domain Specificity, Student Achievement Level, and over Time
Student Success, v11 n2 p109-121 2020
This research explored whether academic self-efficacy calibration (the match between self-efficacy beliefs and academic outcomes) in first-year psychology students (n=197) differed as a function of task type (written assignment/multiple-choice exam), domain specificity (task level/subject level), over time (mid-semester/end of semester) and according to student achievement level (high achievers/low achievers). Lower-achieving students were overconfident across both the written assignment and the exam, while higher-achieving students were accurately calibrated on both tasks. The subject-level calibration of lower-achieving students improved between mid-semester and the end of semester (though students remained overconfident). Higher-achieving students' subject-level calibration remained stable over the semester, and they were about half as overconfident as the lower-achieving students. Both groups of students were more overconfident at subject-level than at task-level overall. On the whole, overconfidence was prevalent, especially for low achievers, and at subject level. Findings suggest that a one-size-fits-all approach to self-efficacy is unlikely to be beneficial for all learners.
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, High Achievement, Low Achievement, Congruence (Psychology), Correlation, Writing Assignments, Multiple Choice Tests, Time Perspective, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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