PRIMARY STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE OF STEM DOMAIN-SPECIFIC SELF-EFFICACY BELIEF AND EXPECTANCY-VALUE BELIEF
| Autor: | Shao-Na Zhou, Lu-Chang Chen, Qiu-ye Li, Chu-Ting Lu, Shao-Rui Xu, De-An Li |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Baltic Science Education. 20:677-690 |
| ISSN: | 2538-7138 1648-3898 |
| Popis: | Most studies have concentrated in assessing students’ overall attitudes towards science, mathematics, and engineering/technology or the attitude towards individual STEM domain. The present research aims to explore primary students’ gender and grade differences of their STEM domain-specific attitudes including self-efficacy and expectancy-value beliefs, as well as their correlations. The results showed no detected significant effects among these different STEM domains in the overall attitudes, the overall self-efficacy beliefs, and the overall expectancy-value beliefs for primary students. The correlations between self-efficacy and expectancy-value were much stronger for the science domain and engineering/technology domain than the mathematics domain. No gender difference of the self-efficacy beliefs was detected except in the mathematics domain, and the result that lower primary students performed significantly better than upper primary students in the self-efficacy was also mainly contributed by the grade difference in the mathematics domain. Whereas no different expectancy-value beliefs existed across genders and grade levels in various STEM domains. The present results reported some unique performances by the primary school students compared to the elder group. Keywords: expectancy-value, gender differences, grade levels, self-efficacy, STEM attitudes |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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