Engineering students’ self-efficacy and goal orientations in relation to their engineering design ability
Authors:
- Stanislav Avsec,
- Agnieszka Szewczyk-Zakrzewska
Abstract
Self-efficacy has been shown to be positively related to undergraduate engineering students’ academic achievements, but due to the multifaceted nature of engineering students’ design ability, an evidence of how students’ self-efficacy and their goal orientation support design skills is still lacking. The purpose of this study was to examine the roles of self-efficacy and achievement goal orientation within the scope of task value on students’ design ability. This research was carried out in the academic year 2017/2018 among 101 engineering students at Cracow University of Technology, Kraków, Poland. To examine students’ beliefs and performance in engineering design, complex instrumentation was used, which consists of two surveys and a creative engineering design test. Findings revealed that self-efficacy is related to engineering design skills directly and indirectly, where performance (ego) goal orientation mediates achievements. Engineering self-efficacy predicted creative engineering design, while students’ intrinsic value in engineering predicted their intentions to persist in the engineering task. The study showed that the developed model was capable of identifying individuals’ self-concepts specific to the engineering design tasks.
- Record ID
- CUT75152d941afc4448a0d21ff2e8862bab
- Publication categories
- ;
- Author
- Journal series
- Global Journal of Engineering Education, ISSN 1328-3154
- Issue year
- 2018
- Vol
- 20
- No
- 2
- Pages
- 85-90
- Other elements of collation
- schem.; tab.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 89-90; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 21; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 20, No. 2
- Keywords in English
- engineering education, self-efficacy, goal orientation, expectancy-value theory, engineering design
- URL
- http://www.wiete.com.au/journals/GJEE/Publish/TOCVol20No2.html Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 15
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Scopus
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUT75152d941afc4448a0d21ff2e8862bab/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUT75152d941afc4448a0d21ff2e8862bab
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