Writing essays: Does self-efficacy matter? The relationship between self-efficacy in reading and in writing and undergraduate students' performance in essay writing

Educational Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-20

  Prat Sala, Merce ^a   Redford, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

self efficacy reading; self efficacy writing; social cognitive theory; writing performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860810501     PISSN: 01443410     EISSN: 14695820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01443410.2011.621411     Document Type: Article

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