Improving students' mathematics self-efficacy: A systematic review of intervention studies
Self-efficacy is an integral part of personal factors that contributes substantially to students' success in mathematics. This review draws on previous intervention studies to identify, describe, and expose underlying mechanisms of interventions that foster mathematics self-efficacy. The findin...
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| description | Self-efficacy is an integral part of personal factors that contributes substantially to students' success in mathematics. This review draws on previous intervention studies to identify, describe, and expose underlying mechanisms of interventions that foster mathematics self-efficacy. The findings show that effective mathematics self-efficacy interventions can be categorized into three categories using their underlying mechanisms: those that directly manipulate sources of self-efficacy to foster the construct, and those that either embed self-efficacy features in teaching methods or in learning strategies. Specific examples of interventions that fall in each of these three categories are described including their features and the underlying mechanisms that improve students' mathematics self-efficacy. I argue for the two “most effective” interventions that foster mathematics self-efficacy and their relevance to either pre-university or university students with implications for teaching and learning of mathematics. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1e16afe519664cfcbc0907d9c6bf8df12022-12-22T04:26:04ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-09-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.986622986622Improving students' mathematics self-efficacy: A systematic review of intervention studiesYusuf F. ZakariyaSelf-efficacy is an integral part of personal factors that contributes substantially to students' success in mathematics. This review draws on previous intervention studies to identify, describe, and expose underlying mechanisms of interventions that foster mathematics self-efficacy. The findings show that effective mathematics self-efficacy interventions can be categorized into three categories using their underlying mechanisms: those that directly manipulate sources of self-efficacy to foster the construct, and those that either embed self-efficacy features in teaching methods or in learning strategies. Specific examples of interventions that fall in each of these three categories are described including their features and the underlying mechanisms that improve students' mathematics self-efficacy. I argue for the two “most effective” interventions that foster mathematics self-efficacy and their relevance to either pre-university or university students with implications for teaching and learning of mathematics.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.986622/fullinterventionstatisticssocial cognitive theoryperformance in mathematicsmathematics self-efficacy |
| spellingShingle | Yusuf F. Zakariya Improving students' mathematics self-efficacy: A systematic review of intervention studies Frontiers in Psychology intervention statistics social cognitive theory performance in mathematics mathematics self-efficacy |
| title | Improving students' mathematics self-efficacy: A systematic review of intervention studies |
| title_full | Improving students' mathematics self-efficacy: A systematic review of intervention studies |
| title_fullStr | Improving students' mathematics self-efficacy: A systematic review of intervention studies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improving students' mathematics self-efficacy: A systematic review of intervention studies |
| title_short | Improving students' mathematics self-efficacy: A systematic review of intervention studies |
| title_sort | improving students mathematics self efficacy a systematic review of intervention studies |
| topic | intervention statistics social cognitive theory performance in mathematics mathematics self-efficacy |
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