Science Self-efficacy of Secondary School Students
Keywords:
Albert Bandura’s self-efficacy theory, Science Self-efficacy, Gender, LocalityAbstract
Context: Efficacy is a belief in own capacity of an individual and science self-efficacy is a belief of an individual in his capacity to complete a scientific task effectively. Science is an important subject in school curriculum, an individual possessing a higher level of efficacy in science is expected to possess high performance in the scientific field. Secondary school students are expected to have a higher level of science self-efficacy beyond the effect of demographic variables. Aims: 1. To study the level of science self-efficacy of secondary school students. 2. To study the significant difference in science self-efficacy of secondary school students based on gender. 3. To study the significant difference in science self-efficacy of secondary school students based on locality. 4. To study the significant difference in science self-efficacy of secondary school students based on age.
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