Investigation of High School Students' Academic Self-efficacy Beliefs

In this study, it is aimed to determine the academic self-efficacy levels of students studying in high school education institutions and to examine them in terms of various variables. This research which survey model was used model was carried out with the adolescents studying in the 2018-2019 academic year in the central district of Yakutiye, Erzurum. In the research, 624 high school students were reached with convenience sampling method. The academic self-efficacy scale consists of 7 items and each item is 4-point Likert type. The adaptation to Turkish version of the scale was made in 2007. In the adaptation to Turkish study, it was determined that the items in the scale were collected in one factor and the factor loads of the items were between .50 and .83, and the Cronbach Alpha coefficient, which is the internal consistency coefficient, was .79. In this study, Cronbach Alpha coefficient was calculated as .72. “Academic Self-Efficacy Scale” was used to collect research data. SPSS 22.0 package program was used in the analysis of the data. According to the results of the research, it was determined that high school students' academic self-efficacy beliefs are at the level of “suits me”. It was found that there was no significant difference between high school students' opinions about their academic self-efficacy beliefs and their gender and student types. According to the variable of the type of school in which high school students study, it was determined that Science High School students had more positive academic self-efficacy beliefs than Anatolian High School and Vocational High School students. Anatolian High School students were also found to have more positive academic self-efficacy beliefs than Vocational High School students. According to the class variable where high school students study, 9th grade students were found to have more positive academic self-efficacy beliefs than 10th grade students.

Keywords

Educational Sciences, self-efficacy, academic self-efficacy belief, high school students, adolescents.