Examining Learning and Peer Efficacy Among Secondary School Students In District of Ledang

Abstract

Efficacy functions to enhance the desire of learning through mediations of motivations and confidence. The present study is designed to achieve two main objectives. First, to identify the level of learning efficacy of public and religious secondary school students. Second, to examine the significant difference level of learning efficacy between public and religious school students. This study involved 242 students sampled from four schools in district Ledang. The sampled participated in the survey, employing a twelfth item questionnaire measuring Learning Self-efficacy (LSE) and Peer Self-efficacy (PSE). The data are analysed quantitatively using descriptive statistics and independent-samples t-tests. The result showed that the majority of students experience a moderate level of learning efficacy. Generally, for the selected public school students the mean is 2.75 and religious school students the mean is 2.97. Regarding the comparison level of learning efficacy between the two types of students, the findings of the current study show that there is no significant differences (p=.47), while peers self-efficacy revealed that there are significant differences (p=0.001).

A Case Study of Undergraduate Students Computer Self-Efficacy from Rural Areas

“…In students' learning process self-efficacy plays an important role [29]. Albert Bandura, a recognized Canadian psychologist defined self-efficacy as "people's judgment of their capabilities to organize and execute sequences of actions required to attain chosen types of performance.…”

“…Conversely, low computer selfefficacy leads to the belief that student will meet struggles in using computers hardware and software. There are a number of researches on students' self-efficacy and students' computer self-efficacy in Malaysia, for examples selfefficacy in learning English [20], self-efficacy in general learning [29], self-efficacy in academic achievements and performances [2] [9], computer self-efficacy towards internet [27] and computer self-efficacy among accounting educators [7]. Next, there are many research on ICT (Information and Communication Telecommunication) knowledge level of rural area communities, for examples, adult computer literacy level [18], students' skills toward ICT [11] [17], and digital inequalities between the rural and urban [15].…”