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ASSESSING PERCEIVED SELF EFFICACY IN RELATION TO MATHEMATICS TASKS: A STUDY OF THE RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF ASSESSMENT
Author(s) -
NORWICH BRAHM
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1986.tb02659.x
Subject(s) - psychology , self efficacy , reliability (semiconductor) , construct validity , discriminant validity , developmental psychology , psychometrics , clinical psychology , social psychology , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , internal consistency
S ummary . This study investigated aspects of the reliability and validity of assessing perceived self efficacy in relation to mathematics tasks. Perceived self efficacy was assessed in two modes, a direct and generalised mode for two mathematics tasks. Self efficacy assessment was conducted over five trials in a repeated measures design with 72 children, age 9–10 years. Performance accuracy at the tasks was assessed after the first and fourth self efficacy assessment. Results showed moderate to high test‐retest and inter‐interviewer reliability for the self efficacy measures. Results also indicated discriminant validity for self efficacy judgments for different tasks. There was evidence for the association between self efficacy and task performance and mathematics self concept. The study confirms some limited aspects of reliability and validity of self efficacy assessment, but not for the construct in its assumed causal influence on performance attainment.