Research in the Teaching of English Aug 2007

Sources of Writing Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Elementary, Middle, and High School Students

Frank Pajares Emory University ; Margaret J. Johnson ; Ellen L. Usher University of Kentucky

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of Albert Bandura’s four hypothesized sources of self-efficacy on students’ writing self-efficacy beliefs (N = 1256) and to explore how these sources differ as a function of gender and academic level (elementary, middle, high). Consistent with the tenets of self-efficacy theory, each of the sources significantly correlated with writing self-efficacy and with each other.

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Research in the Teaching of English
Published
2007-08-01
DOI
10.58680/rte20076485
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gender and writing
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