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Direct linkPajares, Frank; Johnson, Margaret J.; Usher, Ellen L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2007
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…
Descriptors: High School Students, Middle School Students, Females, Epistemology
Peer reviewedPajares, Frank; Johnson, Margaret J. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1994
Investigates the relationships among self-confidence about writing, expected outcomes, writing apprehension, general self-confidence, and writing performance over one semester. Finds that students' beliefs about their own composition skills and the preperformance measure were the only significant predictors. (SR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Writing Achievement
Peer reviewedPajares, Frank; Viliante, Gio – Journal of Educational Research, 1997
This study tested the influence of writing self-efficacy, writing apprehension, perceived usefulness of writing, and writing aptitude on 218 fifth graders' essay-writing performance. Students' beliefs about their abilities directly influenced apprehension, perceived usefulness, and performance, and partially mediated the effects of gender and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Essays, Expository Writing
Peer reviewedPajares, Frank; Johnson, Margaret J. – Psychology in the Schools, 1996
Study tested influence of writing self-efficacy, writing apprehension, and writing aptitude on 181 ninth-grade students. Aptitude and self-efficacy had direct effects on performance. Girls and boys did not differ in aptitude or performance, but girls reported lower writing self-efficacy. Native English-speaking Hispanic students had lower aptitude…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Females, Grade 9, High School Students
Download full textPajares, Frank; Johnson, Margaret J. – 1995
Path analysis was used to test the influence of writing self-efficacy, self-concept, apprehension, and aptitude on the essay-writing performance of 181 ninth-grade students in a public high school in the southwestern United States. A model that also included gender accounted for 53% of the variance in performance. As hypothesized, both aptitude…
Descriptors: Grade 9, High Schools, Hispanic Americans, Path Analysis
Predictive Utility and Causal Influence of the Writing Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Elementary Students.
Pajares, Frank; Valiante, Gio – 1996
According to self-efficacy theorists, people's judgments of what they can accomplish are influential arbiters in human agency and, as such, powerful determinants of their behavior. In large part, this is because these self-efficacy beliefs are said to act as mediators between other acknowledged influences on behavior, such as skill, ability,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests, Elementary Education, Gender Issues
