Although writing self-efficacy has been a productive line of research for several decades, no prior measure focused on students’ integrating information across multiple sources when producing an academic text. To fill this gap in existing the measurement motivation, we designed targeting extent to which students are confident that they can write text integrates content from different sources. I...

Writing is considered a complex process as its relevance to learners’ cognitive and affective activities. The objective of this study describe the status quo non-English major students’ use self-regulated learning (SRL) writing strategies level self-efficacy, investigate correlations between SRL self-efficacy so optimize EFL instruction in China. To end, quantitative method was adopted, which f...

the concept of teacher efficacy has received significant attention in educational contexts in the recent years and has been empirically probed at 2 levels: individual teacher efficacy and collective teacher efficacy. having their origins in the social cognitive theory, teacher and collective efficacy perceptions are quite distinct constructs, each affecting educational decisions and student ach...

objective: the present study aimed to review the relationships between procrastination and two self-factors self-efficacy and self-esteem. methods: participants were 140 undergraduates psychology students enrolled in mohagheg ardabili university, ardabil, iran. instruments used for collecting the required data were the student-version of the general procrastination scale (gp-s), general self-ef...

The two studies reported here explored the factor structure of the newly constructed Writing Achievement Goal Scale (WAGS), and examined relationships among secondary students' writing achievement goals, writing self-efficacy, affect for writing, and writing achievement. In the first study, 697 middle school students completed the WAGS. A confirmatory factor analysis revealed a good fit for thi...