Study The Preparation And Application Of Self-efficacy Scale

The conception 'Perceived Self-efficacy' was put forward in 1977 by Bandura, the famous American psychologist. It refers to the individual perception and belief for effectively controlling such aspects as its own life. It is the central mechanism of human agency, and the important foundation of human behaviour. In accepting and integrating such efficacy information as enactive mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasion, physiological and effective states occurring in the activities, people get their perceived self-efficacy. The perceived self-efficacy adjusts human behaviour by influencing the individual cognitive processes, motivational processes, affective processes and selection processes. Perceived academic self-efficacy means the individual belief of academic ability, the subjective judgement for controlling his or her own learning behaviour and academic achievements, and the performance of perceived self-efficacy in the realm of learning. Perceived academic self-efficacy is the good 'predictive tool' of academic achievements. Such important learning variables as perceived academic self-efficacy and attribution, goal setting, learning interests, learning and examination anxiety, self-regulate have very close relation. Perceived academic self-efficacy directly influences the academic achievements on one hand, and also affects them by influencing the above variables on the other hand. Perceived academic self-efficacy, therefore, is of great significance for the students' learning and their development of whole life. However, the training of students' good perceived academic self-efficacy is often neglected in China's present education, and the related systematic research is also lacking. Regarding the significance of perceived academic self-efficacy and the related researching situation, the dissertation taking the compilation and the application of perceived academic self-efficacy scale as the starting point, attempting to make a study on perceived academic self-efficacy. The study maintains that the measurement and the assessment of the perceived self-efficacy are the crucial aspects of the perceived self-efficacy research, which reflects the researcher's understanding of the connotation, effect and structure of perceived self-efficacy. The study also maintains that the measurement and assessment establish the foundation for confirming the relationship of the perceived self-efficacy with other relative elements, and offer the possibility for us to find out the level of individual perceived efficacy. Therefore, the research has important theoretical significance and practical values.The research is divided into six parts. Part one 'the introduction of the research' explores the above topics. This part mainly introduces the conception and the effectiveness of perceived self-efficacy and perceived academic self-efficacy, and the researching situation both in China and other countries, put forward the aim, significance and researching idea of the study on the compilation and Application of Perceived Academic Self-efficacy Scale.Part two is the approach to the relative theories. The solid theoretic foundation is necessary for compiling a functional scale, and the process of compiling the scale is also a process of exploring relative theories. This part explores the theoretic problems that are concerned with perceived academic self-efficacy, and attempts to absorb the reasonable components from the relative theories, establishes the preliminary theoretic framework of perceived academic self-efficacy scale, and concludes the essential principles and premise, making the theoretic preparation for the designing of perceived academic self-efficacy.Part three is about the compiling of perceived academic self-efficacy scale, and it is thekeystone of the research. The part describes the whole process of scale compiling. First, based on open questionnaires for the students and teachers, and the application of three foreign scales of perceived academic self-efficacy in China's primary and...