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Primary Students' Performance of STEM Domain-Specific Self-Efficacy Belief and Expectancy-Value Belief
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Journal of Baltic Science Education . 2021 20(4):677-690. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Most studies have concentrated in assessing students' overall attitudes towards science, mathematics, and engineering/technology or the attitude towards individual STEM domain. The present research aims to explore primary students' gender and grade differences of their STEM domain-specific attitudes including self-efficacy and expectancy-value beliefs, as well as their correlations. The results showed no detected significant effects among these different STEM domains in the overall attitudes, the overall self-efficacy beliefs, and the overall expectancy-value beliefs for primary students. The correlations between self-efficacy and expectancy-value were much stronger for the science domain and engineering/technology domain than the mathematics domain. No gender difference of the self-efficacy beliefs was detected except in the mathematics domain, and the result that lower primary students performed significantly better than upper primary students in the self-efficacy was also mainly contributed by the grade difference in the mathematics domain. Whereas no different expectancy-value beliefs existed across genders and grade levels in various STEM domains. The present results reported some unique performances by the primary school students compared to the elder group.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1648-3898
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Journal of Baltic Science Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1315536
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research