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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"mastery experiences"”.
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Operationalizing Mastery Experiences in E-mail-Based Fitness Walking Programs
… of two different ways of operationalizing a mastery experience in an e-mail based fitness walking program. Mastery experiences are considered the best way to increase exercise self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997), which is strongly associated with regular physical activity, but little research has …
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Predictors of General Education Teachers' Self-Efficacy for Educating Autistic Students: Enactive Mastery Experiences, Vicarious Experiences, Verbal/Social Persuasions, and Physiological and Affective States
… survey also included items assessing teachers’ experiences with expert consultation and peer observations. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, multiple regression and path analysis.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The findings indicated that teacher attitudes toward autistic students had the …
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Taking a Functional Approach to Volunteering: Explaining Volunteer Congruence and Work Engagement
… motives and psychological detachment and mastery recovery experiences. This was evaluated using a cross-sectional survey with a sample (N = 119) of employees with past volunteering experience. I found that psychological detachment was higher when career motives were greater than career …
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Examining the sources of self-efficacy among instrumental music teachers
… were designed to investigate the extent that mastery experiences, verbal persuasions, vicarious experiences, and physiological state contribute to instrumental music teachers' self-efficacy. The first investigation was a review of the literature about self-efficacy and its sources among …
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A qualitative study investigating the sources of teacher efficacy beliefs
… beliefs are formed from four sources: enactive mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasion and physiological and affective states. Considering the potential importance of developing positive teacher efficacy cognitions, there has been a lack of research investigating the …
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What do I want to be when I grow up? Exploring influencing factors on high school students’ agricultural career considerations
… diverse opportunities, personal connections, and mastery experiences in agricultural careers could drive strategy development to increase high school students’ attraction to agricultural careers.
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Quality of Life Intervention for Breast Cancer Survivors: Application of Social Cognitive Theory
… and provided information, guided feedback, and mastery experiences in a supportive environment for breast cancer survivors. A total of 32 women were enrolled and randomized to either the 8-week intervention or standard-care. With a final n of 14, the lack of statistical power made it difficult …
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The Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Three Adults Returning to Piano Study
… of self-efficacy in the students' piano study experiences throughout the course of one semester. Three adult students enrolled in the Community Music School at the University of South Carolina who took lessons as children, but had not taken lessons for the past 20 and 30 years agreed to …
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The Association of Subordinate Perceptions of Supervisor Recovery with Subordinate Recovery Outcomes
… to take place through four main recovery experiences: psychological detachment from work, relaxation, mastery experiences, and control over leisure time. This study extends the literature surrounding recovery experiences to include subordinate perceptions of supervisor recovery as a …
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Perceptions of High School Seniors' Montessori Experiences and Academic Self-Efficacy Beliefs: A Phenomenological Study
… study was to describe four students' experiences with one school choice option in South Carolina, public Montessori. The purpose of the study was to describe the lived Montessori experiences of participants and my interpretation of their developed academic self-efficacy. This …
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Teacher self-efficacy and formative assessment feedback
… strategies will help shape the students’ mastery experiences and thus influence the students’ own efficacy beliefs. Teachers were asked to self-rate their own use of formative assessments with students by completing a rubric, which included the following categories: formative assessment …
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Reading, Writing, and Belonging: A Qualitative Study Exploring Academic Self-Efficacy Among First-Year, First-Generation Students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
… academic self-efficacy is constructed through mastery experiences, support from peers and instructors, and development of academic identity. Participation in FYS and developmental literacy provided opportunities for feedback, modeling, and emotional regulation, which are key sources of …
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“Did you have a good weekend?” A week-level diary study examining the relationship between weekend recovery and weekday performance
… investigated the relationship between recovery experiences (i.e., psychological detachment, relaxation, and mastery) over the weekend and the state of being recovered on the following Monday. Further, the relationship between the state of being recovered on Monday and weekday performance …
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The Impact of Online Professional Development on Science Teachers' Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectancy Beliefs for Teaching Engineering Practices
… The intervention module was designed to provide mastery experiences, vicarious learning, social persuasions, and emotional/affective support to improve these beliefs. Quantitative results showed no statistically significant changes between the treatment and control groups, but statistically …
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Career decision learning experiences : development and validation of a scale
… factor structure of the Career Decision Learning Experiences scale (CDLE) based on Bandura’s (1977) Social Cognitive Theory and on Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994). A 5-factor model was hypothesized based on the learning experiences proposed by Bandura and …
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Self-Efficacy and First-Generation Students in a Physician Assistant Program
… graduate professional program students regarding experiences, contributors, and successful strategies relative to self-efficacy as related to completion of their degree program. Method: This mixed method study examined the experiences of 59 physician assistant students from Georgia Health Sciences …
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The Impact Of Student-Centered Coaching On Teacher Self-Efficacy: An Exploratory Case Study
… collected through the sources of self-efficacy (mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasion, and physiological/emotional states) which showed how participating in a student-centered coaching cycle can positively impact teacher self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997). Recommendations …
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How do master football coaches develop team confidence?: a study of strategies and conceptualizations in the psychology of collective-efficacy
… 2. Create a Confidence Environment, 3. Promote Mastery, 4. Get Them to Perform, 5. Assess Performance, 6. Stay the Course and 7. Maintain High Performance. In the interviews the coaches revealed that team confidence was essential to their view of how teams achieve success. The constructs of team …
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Perceptions of Change in Self-Efficacy to Pursue Postsecondary Education for Students with Exceptionalities Participating in a Postsecondary Transition Program
… were more likely to describe their personal mastery experiences in a postsecondary academic program and their process of metacognitive skill development, whereas their peers without exceptionalities were more likely to describe a positive experience on a college campus as the primary …
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