Date Available
11-1-2012
Year of Publication
2012
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Document Type
Doctoral Dissertation
College
Education
Department/School/Program
STEM Education
First Advisor
Dr. Margaret J. Mohr-Schroeder
Second Advisor
Dr. Carl W. Lee
Abstract
The Sources of Middle School Mathematics Self-Efficacy Scale (Usher & Pajares, 2009) was adapted for use in this study investigating the impact that gender, race, sexual orientation, hometown location (rural, suburban, or urban), high school GPA, college GPA and letter grade of a mathematics course in the previous semester had on the four sources of mathematical self-efficacy of 102 college freshmen attending three small, private, liberal arts institutions. Even though this study found no interaction effects between the student characteristics, the four sources of mathematical self-efficacy, or the three subcategories of the vicarious experience construct, this study did find statistically significant results for several independent variables: gender, hometown environment, and the letter grade received in the mathematics course the preceding semester at the Bonferroni correction rate of .025. Additionally, small p-values for race and hometown environments warrant further investigation with a larger sample size.
Recommended Citation
Locklear, Tonja Motley, "A DESCRIPTIVE, SURVEY RESEARCH STUDY OF THE STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS INFLUENCING THE FOUR THEORETICAL SOURCES OF MATHEMATICAL SELF-EFFICACY OF COLLEGE FRESHMEN" (2012). Theses and Dissertations--Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education. 1.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/stem_etds/1
