Collection

2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Alfred A. Scalza

completion, and it must have feedback with the inherent possibility of performinga similar task better next time.• Self-Efficacy TheoryThe Self-Efficacy Theory, sometimes called the Social Cognitive Theory, says the higheryour confidence to accomplish a task the better your chances of succeeding at that task.Therefore, a low-confidence student will give up and a high-confidence student will bemotivated by the same task. In fact, the assignment of a more difficult task to a high-confidence person motivates them to even higher confidence. So how does a teacherincrease his student’s confidence or self-efficacy? Albert Bandura wrote there are fourchannels to enhance self efficacy. 9 They are as follows: 1. Enactive Mastery: gaining relevant