Evaluation:
Self Efficacy & Statistics
l“How confident do you feel you can…”
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lSelf Efficacy is the confidence a student has in completing a task (Bandura, 1997).
¡Task specific
¡Good predictor of performance
¡Useful in measure the effect of statistics learning
lMeasure of current statistics self efficacy is positively related to statistics performance (Finney & Schraw, 2003).
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lWe developed a measure of self efficacy specific to the tasks included in the on-line tutorial.
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The next stage in the project that we want to go on about is the Evaluation. We made tow clear decision here first we decide for the nature of the grant we would first focus on the online learning part of the project, So the evaluation is still a work in progress. We had two options we thought for the evaluation we settled for was self efficacy. This is a simple measure of how confident student feel about a task. There is quite a lot of work in the Educational psychology literature on this concept and there has been a small body of literature on the effect of self efficacy on learning and