Systematic Literature Review on Secondary School Students’ Mathematics Self-Efficacy

Abstract

Mathematics self-efficacy is one of the essential behavioural factors in mathematics learning for students. The aim of this review was to determine the relationship of secondary school students' mathematics self-efficacy and their performance in mathematics. Other than that, this review also studied the factors that can influence secondary school students' mathematics self-efficacy. The articles were collected from January 2015 until 2019 across one of the Google Scholar databases. A total of 26 studies were selected for this review. The inclusion and exclusion criteria were performed before starting the review. The results show that there was a positive relationship between secondary school students' mathematics self-efficacy and their performance in mathematics. The factors that influenced the secondary school students' mathematics self-efficacy were their mathematics anxiety, teacher support, online learning, program, learning materials, instructional games and discovery learning. Overall, this review shows that mathematics self-efficacy plays an important role in improving secondary school students' performance in mathematics.

Predictors of high school students’ mathematics self-efficacy in Addis Ababa: The importance of educational expectations

“…Mathematics self-efficacy (MSE) is one of the crucial factors in students' mathematics learning (Roslan and Maat, 2019). It is a stronger predictor of math performance than math anxiety (Pajares and Miller, 1994), previous math experience (Pajares and Kranzler, 1995b), mathematics self-concept, perceived usefulness of mathematics, prior experience with mathematics, or gender (Pajares and Miller, 1994) and influences math performance as strongly as overall mental ability (Pajares and Kranzler, 1995a).…”

“…In a systematic review of studies, it was found that MSE is an important predictor of high school students' mathematics achievement (Roslan and Maat, 2019). In two studies in Greece among students from grades 7-11 mathematics self-efficacy significantly predicted mathematics achievement using data from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) (Cheema, 2018;Hiller et al, 2021).…”

The role of students' mathematics perception and self‐efficacy toward their mathematics achievement

“…Following this, researchers are investigating using different theoretical and empirical frameworks that can give direction for the way determinants of students' mathematics achievement could be identified (Zakariya, 2022). The theoretical frameworks used in this article focused more on discussions of social cognitive theory by Bandura (Roslan & Maat, 2019; Schöber et al, 2018), self‐efficacy theory by Bandura, and Schunk (Silver et al, 2001), and others related to the study under investigation. Most of the studies used in this article observed the students' mathematics self‐efficacy theory based on the students' mathematics perception and self‐efficacy combining them with mathematics achievement (Appiah et al, 2022; Sakellariou, 2022; Yesuf et al, 2023).…”