Evaluating the Psychometric Quality of Self-Efficacy Measures With Diverse Item-Analysis Methods

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

Self-efficacy has dominated research on motivation in the past three decades. Numerous studies have documented its influence on academic achievement and other educational outcomes. However, several scholars including Bandura (2006) have raised concern about psychometric problems in self-efficacy measurement (Henson, 2002; Klassen, 2006; Pajares, 1996; Tschannen-Moran, Woolfolk Hoy, & Hoy, 1998). Bandura (2006) has stressed the importance of item analysis in scale construction. To advance the methodology in validating self-efficacy measures, the researchers in the present symposium collectively present the uses of various item-analysis methods to examine existing or new self-efficacy measures across domains from self-efficacy in teaching (Rasch modeling and Many Facet Rasch Model), science (latent profile analysis and Rasch modeling), writing (exploratory factor analysis), and social change (exploratory factor analysis).

Sub Unit

• Division C - Learning and Instruction / Section 6a: Cognitive, Social, and Motivational Processes

Chairs

• Mei-Lin Chang, Emory University

• George Engelhard, Emory University

Papers

• Measuring the Sources of Teaching Self-Efficacy: A Review of Emerging Scholarship - David Brent Morris, Saint Mary's College of Maryland

• Using the Many-Facet Rasch Model to Evaluate the Psychometric Quality of Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale - Mei-Lin Chang, Emory University; George Engelhard, Emory University

• Exploring Profiles of Responses for the Sources of Science Self-Efficacy Scale - Jason A. Chen, The College of William and Mary; Ellen L. Usher, University of Kentucky; Jennifer Randall, University of Massachusetts

• Measuring More Than Mechanics: The Development and Validation of an Expanded Writing Self-Efficacy Scale - Nadia Behizadeh, Georgia State University

• Can I Change the World? Assessing Individual Self-Efficacy Beliefs About Ability to Change Society - Brandi Nicole Hinnant-Crawford, Emory University

Discussant

• Anita Woolfolk Hoy, The Ohio State University - Columbus