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November 10, 2005
Self-efficacy
In the seminar, Professor Svinicki briefly described Albert Bandura's work on self-efficacy. She said recent research indicates that self-efficacy is the best predictor of student performance in class. Bandura has several books; in Self-efficacy in Changing Societies (p. 149) I learned that Bandura defines four sources people use when forming a sense of self-efficacy: Past success, vicarious experience, persuasion, and physical and emotional state.
There's not much I can do about students' past success, but I can do something about vicarious experience. I can also attempt to persuade, but I'm already such a preacher, it's hard to imagine I could do much more along that line. So I decided to try vicarious experience.
Posted by DavidK at November 10, 2005 07:15 PM | Permalink