In this slideshow I talk about how promoting self-efficacy is important to student success. I conducted research to back up my claim that students need to have high self-efficacy to reach their academic goals.

1. Promoting Self-Efficacy
Jamie Licko
SOE 115 Psychology of Teaching and Learning
Kendall College

2. Self-Efficacy Theory
Self-efficacy, from what I have come to understand is a person’s belief in their
own academic ability and motivation to reach goals. I believe that promoting self-
efficacy in the classroom is important because the students will be confident in
themselves. They will also be more willing to put in the effort they need to reach
their academic goals.
I Chose to research this topic because I want to learn more about how to help
my students have high self-efficacy. I think this can help my students not only in
education but also in life with personal goals they want to achieve.

3. Academic Self-efficacy
“Individuals form their self-efficacy perceptions by interpreting
information from four sources: mastery experience, vicarious experience,
social persuasions, and physiological reactions.” (F. Pajares, 2005) Unless
children have belief in their ability to accomplish a task, they will not have the
motivation to try or follow through when situations become difficult. Self-
efficacy is prevalent not only academically but throughout life as well. “Self-
efficacy is also a critical determinant of the life choices people make and of the
courses of action they pursue.” (F. Pajares, 2005)

4. Self-Efficacy and Success
While self-efficacy and self-esteem sound vary similar, they are not
the same thing. Self-efficacy is the belief in one’s own abilities and Self-esteem
is how one feels about themselves and who they are. “It is natural to want to
make children feel better when they are upset. Our first instinct is often to try
to boost their self-esteem with general words of praise.”(Self-efficacy: Helping
children Believe…, While praising a child to boost their self-esteem is great, we
need to remember that it does not boost self-efficacy. Here the four sources
that contribute to self-efficacy are mentioned, mastery experience, observing
others, Direct persuasion by others and mood.

5. Strategies for student Self-efficacy
According to Haskell (2016) There are many strategies teachers can
use to promote good self efficacy. A few of them are open-ended questioning,
positive reinforcement, increased availability and flip. She goes on later in the
article to state “Our most important job as educators, however, is not to
produce a generation of right answers; it is to produce a generation of
confident, eloquent thinkers who can understand, effectively utilize, and enjoy
their individual learning processes.”
One simple strategy is, availability, students should be able to contact
teachers outside of the classroom Haskell states “Some students may simply
need a bit of extra help to boost their understanding and confidence in the

6. Analysis of information
I feel like I have learned a lot by conducting this research on self-
efficacy. Before I started I did not know much about it. Now I can see how
having good self-efficacy can help educational success. I also learned how it
can impact our daily lives and the tasks we choose to accomplish. Two of the
articles I read talked about what resources help to build self-efficacy. Those
resources are, mastery experience, direct persuasion by others, physiological
reactions, and observing others. The other article gave suggestions for
teachers on how to build self-efficacy in the classroom. I think that in my
future classroom I will try the strategy of the flipped classroom. It stated in the
article that this strategy builds students confidence in finding and gathering
information independently.

7. Connections

8. Conclusion
From conducting this research on self-efficacy I now know how important it is
to have high self-efficacy. When reading the articles for my research I could see how my
self-efficacy is low. It can be hard for me to be motivated to do certain tasks and
sometimes I do tend to give up. This is because I sometimes do not feel confident in my
abilities or that I do not have enough skills to complete the task accurately. I would like
to do more research on this topic in the near future so I can make sure I am helping my
students build a healthy confidence in their own skills and abilities. This way they can
be as successful as possible in anything they pursue.

9. ReferencesHaskell, N.(2016) Strategies to improve student self-efficacy and learning
outcomes. Retrieved february 14, 2018, from https://www.pearsoned.com/improve-
self-efficacy-learning-outcomes/
Pajares, Frank (2005) Self-efficacy during childhood and adolescence implications
for teachers and parents. Retrieved february 14, 2028, from
https://sites.education.uky.edu/motivation/files/2013/08/18464-Self-
Efficacy_During_Childhood_and_Adolescence-
Implications_for_Teachers_and_Parents.pdf
Self-Efficacy: Helping Children Believe They can Succeed(november,3). Newspaper
of The National Association of School Psychologists. retrieved february 14, 2018, from
https://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/cms/lib3/ga01000373/centricity/domain/31/self-
efficacy_helping_children_believe_they_can_suceed.pdf