The Compilation And Application Of Perceived Academic Self-efficacy Scale For Senior Middle School Students In Physics

The Scale of Perceived academic Self-efficacy Scale for senior middle school students in Physics Learning is composed of lying scale and perceived academic self-efficacy scale.The perceived academic self-efficacy scale is composed of 26 items and 4 dimensions including self-assurance,perceived self-doubt,perceived objectives achieving and efficacy experiment.By analyzing the reliability of the scale, the results are the internal reliability at 0.8235 levels,which shows the scale with good reliability.The scale also has good construct validity from factor analysis of it. The criterion related validity is also good by using student's confidence to learn physics as validity criterion.This is a scale with ideal surveying indicators.The scale is used to study the level of perceived academic self-efficacy.The results show:the average score of senior middle school students in perceived academic self-efficacy is 84.1764(the score range from 26 to 130,the medium is 78). When the number of the item is divided by the average score on each dimension,the result is between 3.0045 and 3.9356(the score range from 1 to 5,the medium is 3).The scale is used to study the correlation between self-efficacy and achievement in physics learning.The results show:the correlation coefficient between self-efficacy and learning achievement of physics is 0.514.The self-efficacy of the high achieving students is significant higher than those of the low-achieving students on the whole scale and all dimensions.The scale is used to study the gender & grade differences in their self-efficacy. The results show:the self-efficacy of boys is significant higher than those of girls in self-efficacy scale and all dimensions.The significant difference of grades lies in the whole scale and self-assurance dimension.The self-efficacy of students in grade three is higher than those in grader one.There is significant in grades difference on the self-doubt dimensions,the self-efficacy of students in grade three and grade two is higher than those in grader one.The interaction between gender and grade is not significant.The scale is used to study the relationship between self-efficacy and achievement goal orientation,study motivation,attribution.The results show:there is significant high positive correlation between self-efficacy and mastery-goal orientation,there is low negative correlation between self-efficacy and performance-goal orientations;the correlation coefficient between self-efficacy and mastery-goal orientation is 0.561,the correlation coefficient between self-efficacy and performance-goal orientations is -0.116.There is significant high correlation between self-efficacy and the motivation of pursuing success and avoiding failure;The correlation coefficient between self-efficacy and the motivation of pursuing success is 0.503,the correlation coefficient between self-efficacy and the motivation of avoiding failure is -0.407.The self-efficacy has postive correlation coefficient with internal and controllable attribution(r=-0.210),internal and uncontrollable attribution(r=0.173),the correlation coefficient between self-efficacy external and uncontrollable attribution is -0.331, there is no significant correlation with external and uncontrollable attribution when they succeed.The self-efficacy has negative correlation coefficient with internal and controllable attribution(r=-0.411),internal and uncontrollable attribution(r=-0.435), postive correlation coefficient with external and controllable attribution(r=0.252), external and uncontrollable attribution(r=0.308) when they failed.All of mastery-goal orientation,the motivation of pursuing success,the motivation of avoiding failure,internal attribution when they failed are important internal factors that influence self-monitoring,thedegree of influence of each factor is mastery-goal orientation,internal attribution when they failed,the motivation of pursuing success,the motivation of avoiding failure.