Explain what self-efficacy is and how it is measured with the MSLQ.
Psychology Individual Differences in Educational Settings: Studying Self-Efficacy [1,000 words] An educational psychologist studied adolescents’ self-efficacy in school. The researcher was particularly interested in adolescents’ self-efficacy for learning physics, and in how self-efficacy is related to performance in physics and to intelligence. Data were collected in a secondary school in southeast London. One hundred and […]