Self-efficacy beliefs of university students: an empirical study on the specificity of the construct;Creencias De Autoeficacia De Estudiantes Universitarios: Un Estudio Empírico Sobre La Especificidad Del Constructo

RELIEVE - Revista Electronica de Investigacion y Evaluacion Educativa

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-28

  Blanco Blanco, Ángeles ^a  

^a C Rector Royo Villanova s n Ciudad Universitaria   (Spain)

Author keywords

Academic self efficacy; Confirmatory factorial analysis.; Principal Components Analysis; Self efficacy; Statistics selfefficacy; Attitudes towards statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954684196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11344032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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