- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- The Relationship Between Perceptions of Instructional Practices and Student Self-Efficacy in Guided-Inquiry Laboratory Courses
- Creator:
- Blumer, Lawrence S.
Beck, Christopher W. - Date of Original:
- 2021-10-27
- Subject:
- Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)--Faculty
African American scholars
African Americans--Education (Higher)--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Science self-efficacy, a student's confidence in being able to perform scientific practic-es, interacts with science identity and outcomes expectations, leading to improved per-formance in science courses, persistence in science majors, and ultimately, the pursuit of advanced training in the sciences. Inquiry-based laboratory courses have been shown to improve undergraduate student self-efficacy, but the mechanisms involved and specific components of instructional practices that lead to improved self-efficacy are not clear. In the current study, we determined whether student and faculty perceptions of laboratory instructional practices (scientific synthesis, science process skills, and instructor-directed teaching) were related to postsemester self-efficacy across 19 guided-inquiry laboratory courses from 11 different institutions. Self-efficacy related to science literacy increased significantly from the beginning of the semester to the end of the semester. Variation in individual student perceptions of instructional practices within a course were significantly related to differences in student self-efficacy at the end of the semester, but not average student perceptions or faculty perceptions of their own practices across courses. The im-portance of individual student perceptions suggests that faculty should engage with stu-dents during curricular development. Furthermore, faculty need to use noncontent talk to reinforce the science practices students are engaging in during inquiry-based laboratory courses.
Department: Department of Biology - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/mc.ir.fac.pub:2022_blumer_lawrence
- Original Collection:
- CBE-Life Sciences Education
- Holding Institution:
- Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Rights:
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