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@article{Jinks1999ChildrensPA, title={Children's Perceived Academic Self-Efficacy: An Inventory Scale}, author={Jerry L. Jinks and Vicky Lee Morgan}, journal={The Clearing House}, year={1999}, volume={72}, pages={224-230}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145530611}}
  • J. Jinks, V. Morgan
  • Published 1 March 1999
  • Education, Psychology
  • The Clearing House

Social learning theorists define perceived self-efficacy as a sense of confidence regarding the performance of specific tasks. For example, Bandura (1986) defines the construct as "people's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances. It is concerned not with the skills one has but with the judgments of what one can do with whatever skills one possesses" (391). Performance self-efficacy influences several aspects…

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