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Using Past Performance, Proxy Efficacy, and Academic Self‐Efficacy to Predict College Performance
Author(s) -
Elias Steven M.,
MacDonald Scott
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2007.00268.x
Subject(s) - proxy (statistics) , psychology , self efficacy , multilevel model , variance (accounting) , scale (ratio) , academic achievement , social psychology , regression analysis , applied psychology , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , statistics , physics , mathematics , accounting , quantum mechanics , business
This study examined the ability of prior academic performance, proxy efficacy, and academic self‐efficacy to predict college academic performance. Participants ( N = 202) completed a modified version of the Teacher Collective Efficacy scale (Goddard, 2001), the Academic Self‐Efficacy scale (Elias & Loomis, 2000), and a demographic questionnaire. Prior performance was predictive of both academic self‐efficacy beliefs and college performance. Hierarchical regression analysis indicates that academic self‐efficacy beliefs explain a significant amount of unique variance beyond past performance in predicting college performance. Proxy efficacy did serve as a predictor of student academic self‐efficacy, but did not serve as a predictor of college performance. Implications for instructors, as well as for future research, are discussed.