Assessing Academic Self-Efficacy, Knowledge, and Attitudes in Undergraduate Physiology Students.

ABSTRACT: Academic self-efficacy affects the success of students in the sciences. Our goals were to develop an instrument to assess the self-efficacy and attitudes toward science of students in an undergraduate physiology course. We hypothesized 1) that our instrument would demonstrate that students taking this course would exhibit greater self-efficacy and more positive attitudes toward science than students in a non-science undergraduate course, and 2) that the physiology students' self-efficacy and attitudes would improve after completing the course. A 25-question survey instrument was developed with items investigating demographic information, self-efficacy, content knowledge, confidence, and attitudes regarding science. Students in either an undergraduate physiology course (Group P) or a histor

SUBMITTER: Woolcock AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5049698 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature