Self-Efficacy

Self-efficacy is belief in one’s capability to organise and execute actions to reach a goal. In education technology contexts it appears as ICT self-efficacy, teaching efficacy, and confidence that shapes engagement and persistence.

Students and teachers attempt hard digital tasks when they believe they can cope. These studies treat self-efficacy as both outcome and correlate of digital learning designs.

Claim ledger

What the evidence shows

Drawn from 4 studies in this library. Mix labels say which citation roles are present; they are not a strength score. Supports means evidence for a finding; Challenges means evidence against a stated position; Qualifies marks scope.

• ● Supporting studies only

  Digital learning experiences and training contexts are studied as correlates of ICT or teaching-related self-efficacy and related engagement outcomes.

  4 studies
  1. 1Project SCORE: youth research and STEM self-efficacy
  2. 2Did research programs protect science confidence in COVID?
  3. 3Online self-efficacy and remote-learning satisfaction
  4. 4Info literacy skills predict teachers’ ICT self-efficacy

  Study comparison

  Study	Role	Design	N	Population	Outcome
  Project SCORE: youth research and STEM self-efficacy2026	Supports	OtherEducational program description/evaluation of a student-centered outcomes-research experience	Program evaluation; primary student N not extracted	Students in an outcomes-research training experience	Student experience and outcomes in a student-centered research program
  Did research programs protect science confidence in COVID?2023	Supports	CohortCSUN undergraduates surveyed Spring 2019 vs pandemic follow-up; propensity-matched BUILD vs non-BUILD	N=133 · 22 BUILD and 111 non-BUILD in the matched sample	Undergraduates at a large public university in Southern California	Sense of belonging (or related psychosocial outcome) before vs during COVID-19
  Online self-efficacy and remote-learning satisfaction2022	Supports	Cross-sectionalMay 2020 survey of OLSE domains vs e-learning satisfaction in Saudi universities	N=1226 · 1,226 students across 22 universities	Saudi undergraduate and postgraduate students in emergency remote learning	Learning satisfaction associated with online learning, time-management, and technology self-efficacy
  Info literacy skills predict teachers’ ICT self-efficacy2022	Supports	Cross-sectionalSEM survey linking information literacy to ICT teaching self-efficacy	N=310 · 310 pre-service teachers at two Lithuanian universities	Lithuanian pre-service teachers	ICT self-efficacy for teaching predicted by information evaluation and search literacy

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Papers

4 studies in this library bear on Self-Efficacy, ordered by citations.

• Online self-efficacy and remote-learning satisfaction

  Among Saudi university students in emergency remote learning, online learning, time-management, and technology self-efficacy were central to satisfaction with e-learning.

  Education and information technologies · 2022 · 20 citations

• Info literacy skills predict teachers’ ICT self-efficacy

  For Lithuanian pre-service teachers, stronger perceived information evaluation and search literacy predicted higher ICT self-efficacy for teaching.

  International journal of educational technology in higher education · 2022 · 5 citations

• Did research programs protect science confidence in COVID?

  Biomedical students in a funded undergraduate research program gained science self-efficacy from 2019 to 2020, unlike matched peers outside the program.

  Education sciences · 2023 · 1 citations

• Project SCORE: youth research and STEM self-efficacy

  A Mississippi youth participatory action and near-peer mentoring pipeline was feasible and well liked, with modest non-significant gains in STEM self-efficacy and career interest.

  Education sciences · 2026 · 0 citations

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