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| Abstract Title: | Identifying Threats and Supports to Self-Efficacy Using Mixed Methods Research |
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| Abstract: | Research on self-efficacy -- or the confidence in one's capability to perform a task -- has been shown to predict achievement and persistence in the sciences. Throughout a student's experience in curricular and/or co-curricular activities, they may face threats to their self-efficacy. To investigate the threats or supports to students' self-efficacy, we are using a mixed methods approach. This novel design creates a holistic narrative of which curricular and/or co-curricular activities are impacting a student's self-efficacy as well as how and why these activities may be affecting their self-efficacy. We use a mixed methods approach to collect in-the-moment information about lived experiences. Quantitatively, we employ the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) using surveys of domain-specific self-efficacy. Qualitatively, we use daily reflections to investigate threats and supports toward students' self-efficacy. Using an example, we will present the research design while focusing on building this conversation between the ESM and qualitative reflections. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session 2 Room B |
| Poster Number: | 2B-13 |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Carissa Myers Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone: 9372063823 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Vashti Sawtelle, Lyman Briggs College & Department of Physics & Astronomy Rachel Henderson, Department of Physics & Astronomy & CREATE for STEM Institute |
