Volume 3 : Issue 3 & 4 (2016)

MEASUREMENT OF WRITING SELF-EFFICACY OF HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS

Writing self-efficacy would affect academic achievement of higher education students as they need to perform the majority oftheir academic tasks in written form. Thus, the main objective of this study was to measure writing self-efficacy of higher education students with reference to their gender, social class category and area of residence. Survey method was used in this study. All the post graduate level students of Gujarat Vidyapith were the population of the study. 306 students were selected by random cluster method. Four point Likert type Writing Self-efficacy Scale was applied which was validated earlier. Thefindings revealed that only 14.05% students had high level writing self-efficacy. There was no significant difference in writing self-efficacy in the context of students' gender. There was significant difference in writing self-efficacy in the context of students 'social class category and area of residence.

Measurement, Higher Education, Writing Self-efficacy, Comparison

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