Meeting students halfway: Increasing self-efficacy and promoting knowledge change in astronomy

Two motivational factors—self-efficacy and interest—may be especially relevant to deepening students’ understanding of astronomy. We examined the relationship between students’ self-efficacy for, interest in learning about, and changes in their knowledge of stars, as measured by the Star Properties...

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Main Authors: Janelle M. Bailey, Doug Lombardi, Jacqueline R. Cordova, Gale M. Sinatra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2017-12-01
Series:Physical Review Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.13.020140