Investigating High School Students’ Self-Efficacy in Reading Circles

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine LeBlanc
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
First Year ◽  
School Students ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Reading Anxiety ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Academic Year

The purpose of this quasi-experimental longitudinal study is to investigate the effects of EFL reading circles on Japanese high school students’ reading self-efficacy and reading anxiety. The participants (N = 316), first-year students at a Japanese coeducational high school, participated in regular reading circles over the course of one academic year. Quantitative data were collected through questionnaires measuring reading self-efficacy, reading anxiety, and attitudes towards reading circles. A repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed to evaluate changes in reading self-efficacy and anxiety. Reading self-efficacy was shown to improve significantly over the course of the academic year, while reading anxiety significantly decreased. Reasons for these changes are discussed. この特定の被験者に対する継続的実験研究の目的は、日本の高校生の英文読解に対する自己効力感と不安感に、EFLリーディングサークルがどのような効果をもたらすかについて調査することである。316人の被験者は日本の男女共学の高校一年生であり、1年間を通して定期的にリーディングサークルに参加した。定量的データは、読解における自己効力感、不安感、そしてリーディングサークルに対する態度を測る質問票から集計されたものである。読解に対する自己効力感と不安感の変化を評価するために反復測定分散分析（ANOVA）が行われた。1年の間に、読解に対する自己効力感は有意に向上し、不安感は有意に減少した。本論では、こういった変化の理由についても論じている。

scholarly journals Self-Efficacy and Academic Performance in Algebra among First-Year Private Non – Sectarian High School Students

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lolly Jean C. Simbulas
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Standardized Test ◽  
Cognitive Strategies ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
First Year ◽  
School Students ◽  
First Year Students

The determinants of students’ academic performance caught the attention of many scholars for many years now. Among other factors, self-efficacy proved to be an important predictor of academic performance. In an educational context, self-efficacy refers to students’ expectations about their ability to complete academic tasks successfully. Learners, who are unsure of their ability to complete the task, often give up when they encounter difficulties. This study tested the relationship between self-efficacy and academic performances in Algebra among first-year private non-sectarian high school students. The research design was descriptive- correlation survey method that utilizes a modified tool in Algebra self-efficacy scale in order to gather data from 163 first-year students from different high schools in Davao City. The academic performance measured in this study was based on students’ third-quarter grades. Data were treated using Mean and Pearson Product - Moment Coefficient of Correlation. The results of the study indicated that the level of students’ self–efficacy on Motivational Strategies, Cognitive Strategies, Resource Management, and Self-Regulated Learning is high. Furthermore, students’ level on academic performance in Algebra is satisfactory. Self-efficacy was not significantly related to academic performance in Algebra. The study recommends using a standardized test in algebra to measure students’ academic performance and with a bigger sample proportionate to the population of each school.Keywords— Mathematics Education, self–efficacy, academic performance, algebra, first year students, private non-sectarian, descriptive-correlational design, Davao City, Philippines

scholarly journals The problems of junior high school students

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Nurhasanah Nurhasanah ◽  
Muh Farozin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Survey Methods ◽  
Junior High School Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Guidance And Counseling ◽  
School Students ◽  
First Year Students

Problem is a state that is not in line with expectations and must be solved immediately. The junior high school student is in the early adolescent phase, which finds many major changes in him that can cause problems. Guidance and conseling services should be provided in accordance with the problems experienced by students and their needs. However, guidance and conseling teachers have difficulty identifying the problems that affect the giving of guidance and counseling services. This study observes the problems experienced by students in junior high school with the number of respondents as many as 193 students. They are first year students of junior high school in Yogyakarta. We analyzed student problems using survey methods with problem-based guidance and counseling instrument, namely Alat Ungkap Masalah (AUM) Umum. The results showed that the 3 highest problem experienced by junior high school students in Yogyakarta covered 45% of he Social Relationship, 44% Personality, and Physical Health got 40%.

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of a Proposed Enrichment Program in Developing Geographical Concepts and Cosmic Awareness among High School Students in Saudi Arabia

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Fawziah Aldosary
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Female Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Enrichment Programs ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Enrichment Program ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
And Control ◽  
Academic Year

The current study is an attempt to investigate the effectiveness of a proposed enrichment program to develop geographical and cosmic concepts and knowledge among high school 2nd grade female students in KSA. The population consisted of high school 2nd grade female students, Humanities stream, for the academic year 2016/2017. The sample of the study consisted of (50) female students, randomly selected. The participants were divided into two groups, experimental (25) and control (25). The quasi-experimental method has been adopted in this study. The statistical treatments conducted such as (arithmetic mean and standard deviation) and Man Whitney Test used to confirm equivalence between the two groups, T-Test to find differences between the two groups. ETA Square used to measure the effect size for the adopted enrichment program. The study resulted in a great effect of the proposed enrichment program on the female students’ achievement of geographical and cosmic concepts. The results also indicated an effect of the proposed program in developing cosmic awareness. The most significant recommendations represented in having interest in developing enrichment programs, on which training courses should be conducted for  pre and in-service teachers in order to change Geography curriculum from achievement curriculum into enrichment one, and reconsidering Geography curricula to enrich them with activities that develop geographical and cosmic concepts and cosmic awareness. 

scholarly journals Group Counseling to Reduce Academic Stress in Senior High School Students

Konselor ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrim Alifa Putrikita ◽  
Endah Puspita Sari
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Group Counseling ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Academic Stress ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Senior High School Students

The objective of the study is to determine the effect of group counseling on academic stress of senior high school students. Academic stress is a student's response to academic demands that cannot be prevented, avoided or controlled. Respondents in this study were four senior high school students who had high academic stress scores. This study used a quasi-experimental one-group pretest-posttest design. Researchers measured respondents' academic scores before and after the group counseling was given. Researchers used the Educational Stress Scale for Adolescents (ESSA) to measure the academic stress of respondents. The treatment given, which was group counseling, was given in five sessions. Researchers used anava repeated measures to analyze the data. From the statistical analysis conducted, it can be concluded that group counseling has a significant effect on reducing the academic stress of the research respondents. From the results of this study, researchers suggest that group counseling is effective for reducing academic stress in senior high school students.

scholarly journals Staying in school for lunch instead of eating in fast-food restaurants: results of a quasi-experimental study among high-school students

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 2310-2319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique Beaulieu ◽  
Gaston Godin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Relative Risk ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Control School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Fast Food Restaurants ◽  
The Mean

AbstractObjectiveFollowing the adoption of food policies replacing unhealthy products by healthy foods in school, the present study tested the effectiveness of an intervention aimed at encouraging high-school students to stay in school for lunch instead of eating in fast-food restaurants.DesignA 12-week multi-strategy intervention targeting specific determinants of behaviour was evaluated via a quasi-experimental pre- and post-intervention design. A self-administered questionnaire was employed based on the theory of planned behaviour.SettingAn experimental (n 129) and a control school (n 112) in central Canada.SubjectsHigh-school students aged 12 to 17 years.ResultsCompared with control school students, those in the experimental school significantly increased the mean number of days that they stayed in school for lunch (relative risk = 1·55; 95 % CI 1·06, 2·27; P = 0·024), as well as the proportion who remained in school for lunch every day (relative risk = 1·21; 95 % CI 1·04, 1·40; P = 0·014). Among the psychosocial variables targeted, only self-efficacy appeared to be influenced by the intervention, mainly because of a decline in control group values. Mediation analysis indicated a significant mediating effect of self-efficacy on the mean number of days that students stayed in school for lunch (bias-corrected and accelerated point estimate = 0·079; 95 % CI 0·0059, 0·1958).ConclusionsThese results suggest that interventions aimed at enhancing self-efficacy can successfully contribute to students staying in school during lunch time. Such interventions should be considered in obesity prevention programmes adapted to high-school students.

scholarly journals The Effect of Assertiveness Skills Training on Reduction of Emotional Victimization of Female High School Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Adnan Hosseini ◽  
Mirmahmoud Mirnasab ◽  
Hossein Salimy ◽  
Masumeh Zangiabadi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
And Control ◽  
Academic Year

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of assertiveness skills(AS)training on reduction of Emotional victimization in Sanandaj high school female students in iran (Academic year of 2013-14). Thus, 50 students (25 experimental, 25 control) were selected using random clustering sampling. This study was a quasi-experimental design with pretest, posttest and control group. Data was collected using Iranian form of bullying victimization scale. In an assertiveness skills training program, experimental group attended at eight 90-min sessions (one session per week), but control group never attended at any session. Data was examined using ANCOVA in SPSS. The results in  both experimental and follow-up stagesshowed that there was a significant diffrences between pretest and posttest inexperimental group. The findings were suggested that an assertiveness skillstraining program decreased students’ Emotional victimization as an effective intervention.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijls.v9i4.12679

scholarly journals Social Intelligence and Valuable Orientations of First-Year Students of the University

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1880-1883
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Social Intelligence ◽  
Psychological Adaptation ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
First Year ◽  
School Students ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
The University

The authors turn to the consideration of the issue of social intelligence and value orientations of high school students. Speaking about the relevance of the study, the authors indicate that social intelligence and the value orientations provide students with psychological adaptation to new socio-economic conditions and education systems, and participate in the formation of professional self-determination. Considering social intelligence, the authors turn to the interpretation of this concept by researchers E.L. Thorndike, F. Moss and T. Hunt, G. Olport. When considering the concept of “value orientations”, the authors turn to history and give its definition, based on the study of psychological and pedagogical literature. In order to study the social intelligence and value orientations of high school students, the authors conducted an experiment, which is based on a test for the study of social intelligence by J. Guildford and M. O’Sullivan. The students' value orientations were evaluated according to three universal factors: grades (values), strengths (potency) and activity, developed by C. Osgood.

scholarly journals Teknik Permainan Kartu Memo dalam Pembelajaran Aksara Sunda

LOKABASA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-179
Author(s):  
Muhamad Farid ◽  
Rahman Rahman ◽  
Usep Kuswari
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
School Students ◽  
Writing Ability ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Academic Year

The background of this study is the lack of students’ ability to write Sundanese writing. This study has a purpose to describe students’ writing ability towards Sundanese writing based on the form, grammatical writing, also manners before using memo cards game students’ writing ability towards Sundanese writing based on the form, grammatical writing, also manners after using memo cards game the effectiveness of memo cards game to help increasing the students’ writing ability in Sundanese writing based on the form, grammatical writing, and also manners. Using the quasi-experimental research and one-group pretest and posttest design. This study collected the data using tests to the Junior High School students grade VII-A in SMPN 2 Lembang, academic year 2018/2019 which is 37 students. The results show that: 1) students’ writing ability towards Sundanese writing before using memo cards game is about 60,13 from the 70 of passing grade; 2) students’ writing ability towards Sundanese writing after using memo cards game increase to 74,66; and 3) there is a significant difference between the students’ writing before using memo cards game and after using memo cards game. We can see from the hypothesis experiment that the value of Asimp. Sig (2-Tailed) is 0,000. We can conclude that the memo card game technique can mrove the writing skills of Sundanese grade VII-A junior high school student in academic year 2018/2019.AbstrakLatar belakang penelitian ini adalah kurangnya kemampuan dalam menulis aksara Sunda siswa kelas VII-A SMPN 2 Lembang taun ajaran 2018/2019. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan kemampuan menulis aksara Sunda siswa kelas VII-A SMPN 2 Lembang sebelum dan sesudah menggunakan teknik permainan kartu memo berdasarkan bentuk, tatacara penulisan, serta kaidah-kaidahnya, dan perbedaan yang signifikan kemampuan menulis aksara Sunda sebelum dan sesudah menggunakan teknik permainan kartu memo. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu studi kuasi eksperimen dengan desain penelitian one-group pretest and posttest. Teknik yang digunakan untuk mengumpulkan data dalam penelitian ini yaitu menggunakan tes kepada siswa kelas VII-A SMPN 2 Lembang tahun ajar 2018/2019 yang berjumlah 37 siswa. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian yang dilakukan dapat diketahui bahwa, (1) kemampuan siswa menulis aksara Sunda sebelum menggunakan teknik permainan kartu memo adalah sebesar 60,13, (2) kemampuan siswa menulis aksara Sunda setelah menggunakan teknik permainan kartu memo adalah sebesar 74,66 3) terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan antara kemampuan menulis siswa terhadap aksara Sunda sebelum dan sesudah menggunakan teknik permainan  kartu memo. Hal tersebut dapat kita lihat dari uji hipotesis bahwa nilai Asimp. Sig (2-Tailed) sebesar 0,000. Dengan demikian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa Teknik Permainan Kartu Memo dapat meningkatkan kemampuan menulis aksara Sunda siswa SMPN 2 Lembang tahun ajaran 2018/2019.Abstrak: Latar belakang penelitian ini adalah kurangnya kemampuan dalam menulis aksara Sunda siswa kelas VII-A SMPN 2 Lembang taun ajaran 2018/2019. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan kemampuan menulis aksara Sunda siswa kelas VII-A SMPN 2 Lembang sebelum dan sesudah menggunakan teknik permainan kartu memo berdasarkan bentuk, tatacara penulisan, serta kaidah-kaidahnya, dan perbedaan yang signifikan kemampuan menulis aksara Sunda sebelum dan sesudah menggunakan teknik permainan kartu memo. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu studi kuasi eksperimen dengan desain penelitian one-group pretest and posttest. Teknik yang digunakan untuk mengumpulkan data dalam penelitian ini yaitu menggunakan tes kepada siswa kelas VII-A SMPN 2 Lembang tahun ajar 2018/2019 yang berjumlah 37 siswa. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian yang dilakukan dapat diketahui bahwa, (1) kemampuan siswa menulis aksara Sunda sebelum menggunakan teknik permainan kartu memo adalah sebesar 60,13, (2) kemampuan siswa menulis aksara Sunda setelah menggunakan teknik permainan kartu memo adalah sebesar 74,66 3) terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan antara kemampuan menulis siswa terhadap aksara Sunda sebelum dan sesudah menggunakan teknik permainan  kartu memo. Hal tersebut dapat kita lihat dari uji hipotesis bahwa nilai Asimp. Sig (2-Tailed) sebesar 0,000. Dengan demikian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa Teknik Permainan Kartu Memo dapat meningkatkan kemampuan menulis aksara Sunda siswa SMPN 2 Lembang tahun ajaran 2018/2019.

scholarly journals Testing the Psychometric Properties of the Modeling Self-Efficacy Scale

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anu Sharma ◽  
Stephen J Pape ◽  
Jonathan Templin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
International Student ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Mathematics Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Valid Instrument ◽  
Ninth Grade Students

The Modeling Self-Efficacy Scale was developed to measure middle and high school students’ confidence in understanding and solving modeling tasks. The scale was administered to 225 eighth- and ninth-grade students. Participants read modeling tasks adapted from Programme for International Student Assessment’s 2003 problem-solving assessment and rated their confidence on a 100-point self-efficacy scale. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that modeling self-efficacy is a unidimensional construct, best elicited by a repeated-measures-style survey design in which participants responded to the same self-efficacy items across multiple modeling problems. The omega reliability coefficient for the scale was .88. The findings suggest that the Modeling Self-Efficacy Scale is a reliable and valid instrument for middle and high school mathematics students.

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