The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect self-efficacy and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) on knowledge-sharing minimarket employees. This needed so that employees can cooperate with colleagues, solve work problems, develop new ideas, implement policies or procedures effectively efficiently. However, research focuses retail business in format still rarely done. based a surve...

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of Albert Bandura’s four hypothesized sources of self-efficacy on students’ writing self-efficacy beliefs (N = 1256) and to explore how these sources differ as a function of gender and academic level (elementary, middle, high). Consistent with the tenets of self-efficacy theory, each of the sources significantly correlated with writing self...

background: after many years of teaching, both the efficiency and efficacy of communication skills programs are under question because patients’ dissatisfaction with doctors’ communication behavior is at the top of the complaint lists. it is assumed that finding the specific role of different determinants of doctors’ communication behavior, instructional designers can plan more effective traini...

This study aimed at investigating the possibility of improving EFL learners’ self-efficacy by implementing a metacognitive strategies instruction program. The participants were 53 female EFL learners who were divided into two experimental and control groups. The experimental group received an eight-week treatment on metacognitive strategies through descriptions, modeling, and practice. At the b...

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate items with which to assess A. Bandura’s (1997) theorized sources of self-efficacy among middle school mathematics students. Results from Phase 1 (N = 1111) were used to develop and refine items for subsequent use. In Phase 2 of the study (N = 824), a 39-item, four-factor exploratory model fit best. Items were revised to strengthen psychometr...

When researching a topic, users often need different kinds of information which are provided by different information sources. In developing the SINGLESOURCE application, we are building a framework for accessing multiple sources, both for querying several sources simultaneously and viewing the results in a hierarchy of related documents. We first discuss our approach to querying multiple sourc...

Actions of antiallergic drugs depend on their ability to inhibit a particular stage of allergic reaction and to control symptoms of allergic inflammation. Drugs effective in early stage of allergic reaction prevent allergic cascade by acting on dendritic cells, by means of DNA-based therapies resulting both in down-regulation of T-helper cell type 2 (Th2) cytokine profile release and immunoglob...