High school boys’ and girls’ writing conceptions and writing self-efficacy beliefs: what is their role in writing performance?

Abstract

Esta es la versión de autor del artículo publicado en: This is an author produced version of a paper published in: This study investigated the conceptions about writing and writing self-efficacy beliefs held by high school students in relation to the students' gender as well as their associations with writing achievement. The results show that female students have more sophisticated writing conceptions than their male counterparts but no gender differences were found in writing self-efficacy beliefs. In addition, results reveal that writing self-efficacy beliefs and gender play an important role in predicting writing performance and that writing performance is moderated by students' writing conceptions. Educational implications and further research are discussed.

Profiles of self-perceived competencies and conceptions of academic writing in university students / Perfiles de competencias y concepciones sobre la escritura académica en estudiantes universitarios

“…These results find support in the already wellestablished idea of the inter-relation between writing beliefs and self-efficacy beliefs (Villalón, Mateos, & Cuevas, 2013;White & Bruning, 2005). A student who holds a sophisticated view of writing also tends to perceive him or herself as being competent.…”

“…The results of some research carried out by the present authors with secondary and university students (Mateos, et al, 2011;Miras, Solé & Castells,2013;Villalón, Mateos & Cuevas, 2013) point in the same direction. These studies examined the relationship between transmissional and transactional reading and writing beliefs and the quality of a written synthesis of multiple texts.…”

“…Some studies that have examined this issue do point to a relationship between writing conceptions, self-efficacy beliefs and writing performance (Villalón, Mateos, & Cuevas, 2013;White & Bruning, 2005). In White and Bruning's (2005) study, efficacy for writing was used to identify possible motivational correlates of implicit beliefs about writing.…”

“…They found a significant correlation between transactional beliefs and writing efficacy, but not between transmissional beliefs and writing efficacy. The study by Villalón, Mateos and Cuevas (2013) investigated the conceptions about writing and writing self-efficacy beliefs held by high school students and their associations with writing achievement. Results revealed that writing selfefficacy beliefs play an important role in predicting writing performance and that writing performance is moderated by students' writing conceptions.…”

Medición de la Autoeficacia para la Escritura Académica. Una Revisión Teórico-Bibliográfica

“…Una de las variables que se ha relacionado con el desempeño en la escritura es la autoeficacia (Castells et al, 2015;Villalón et al, 2013, entre otros), por lo que existen variados instrumentos que miden la autoeficacia para la escritura (Zimmerman y Bandura, 1994;Pajares, 2007;Büyükikiz et al, 2013, entre muchos otros). En este marco, el constructo de autoeficacia ha demostrado que incide en la predicción del rendimiento y que es el mejor o un muy importante predictor del éxito académico de los estudiantes (Castells et al, 2015;Villalón et al, 2013;Blanco et al, 2016), además de ser un constructo simple y parsimonioso, que lo justifica como una excelente vía para el estudio de las habilidades de escritura. Considerando la dificultad y relevancia de la escritura académica, la importancia del constructo de autoeficacia para el abordaje de la escritura académica y la necesidad de contar con un instrumento válido y confiable que permita medirla de manera pertinente, el objetivo de este estudio es realizar una revisión sistemática de la literatura publicada sobre instrumentos de medición de autoeficacia asociada a la competencia para la escritura académica, a fin de analizar y sintetizar las particularidades de los instrumentos, sus características psicométricas y los principales resultados obtenidos a partir de su aplicación.…”