Gender differences in self-efficacy states in high school physics

Self-efficacy, the belief in one’s ability to succeed in learning tasks, predicts learning and success in education broadly and physics specifically. While self-efficacy increases for students in most introductory science and mathematics courses, self-efficacy consistently decreases for women in phy...

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Main Author: Jayson M. Nissen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2019-03-01
Series:Physical Review Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.15.013102