The Importance Of Self-Efficacycy

Students’ self-efficacy has been the researchers’ interest and been the focus of their studies for the last thirty years due in part to the motivational, affective and behavior outcomes of Bandura’s theory of learning. Meanwhile, the achievement gap that exists between African -American and Latino students and to their White counterpart (Stinson, 2006) is not going away. As Riconscente explains that crusade to bridge the “floundering” students to the “achievers” is “at the heart of countless investigation

attitudes towards students and the lesson itself (Tschannen-Moran, Woolfolk Hoy, & Hoy 1998, p. 233), teacher efficacy therefore has a major role in the development of students own self-efficacy and achievement in the classroom (Midgley, Feldlaufer, & Eccles, 1989). 1. Teacher self-efficacy within science impacting on student’s self-efficacy towards science. Teachers have been proven to be more motivated in teaching a subject they feel comfortable teaching rather than teaching and creating lessons on

1994;1997) foundation and understanding that factors other than skill mastery influence academic performance, more specifically self-efficacy. These studies have been conducted with high school and college students as the subjects across the nation. A recent study conducted by Kim (2014), assessed the influence of family background, involvement and expectations in students’ self-efficacy by using data collected through the Educational Longitudinal study of 2002; the sample consisted of 26 students selected