Researchers working in educational settings are increasingly paying attention to the role
students' thoughts and beliefs play in the learning process. Self-efficacy, a key element of …

Educational researchers have begun recently to identify and study key processes through
which students self-regulate their academic learning. In this overview, I present a general …

Tanto el desarrollo de las competencias comunicativas como las específicamente
lingüísticas resultan básicas para el dominio de todas las demás, por ello es fundamental …

My career path to understanding the source and nature of human learning started with an
interest in social processes, especially cognitive modeling, and has led to the exploration of …

Using a multi-source, multi-measure research design involving 507 high school students
and their teachers, we compared prediction of these students' academic achievement by a …

Publisher Summary There is considerable agreement about the importance of self-
regulation to human survival. There is disagreement about how it can be analyzed and …

Academic motivation is discussed in terms of self-efficacy, an individual's judgments of his or
her capabilities to perform given actions. After presenting an overview of self-efficacy theory …

Discusses general conceptual growth, with special emphasis on the contributions of Piaget.
Other areas discussed—including social cognition, perception, and memory—are based …

The purpose of this article is to examine the contribution made by the self-efficacy
component of A. Bandura's (1986) social cognitive theory to the study of writing in academic …

The role of self-efficacy beliefs concerning the academic attainment and regulation of
writing, academic goals, and self-standards on writing course achievement was studied with …