Banca de DEFESA: TALYSON AMORIM TENORIO DE CARVALHO

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STUDENT : TALYSON AMORIM TENORIO DE CARVALHO
DATE: 06/10/2022
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Remoto (Google Meet)
TITLE:

SELF-EFFICACY, ADJUSTMENT, AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: A STUDY WITH UNDERGRADUATES IN A PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION.


KEY WORDS:

Self-efficacy. Academic adjustment. Academic performance. Private higher education.


PAGES: 190
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:
This study sought to investigate to the extent to which a belief in self-efficacy and adjustment to higher education affects the academic performance of students of a private institution in the State of Bahia. An on-line questionnaire was used composed of three parts: 1) a questionnaire of academic life (QVA-r) from Granado, et alii (2005), to analyse the adjustment process os students to their higher education institution; 2) a scale of occupational self-efficacy, reduced  version (EAO-r), from Damasio, Freitas and Koller (2014); 3) a sociodemographic and educational questionnaire to characterize students in accordance with such background  variables. The study was quantitative in nature and sought to identify possible associations between the variables of self-efficacy, academic adjustment, and academic performance, on the one hand,and sociodemographic factors, on the other. Thus, the study relied on a survey methodology and was based on three hypothesis: H1: The dimension of self-efficacy is a predictor of academic adjustment and performance: H2: The dimension of academic adjustment is a predictor of academic performance; H3: Personal and academic factors are predictors of the dimensions of self-efficacy, academic adjustment and academic performance. To investigate the objectives and hypotheses of the study, the following statistical techniques were adopted: descriptive analysis, the Kruskall-Wallis nonparametric test, Spearman correlation analysis, regression analysis, and the analysis of networks and graphs. A total 358 students participated in study, from both sexes and from both the first and second semesters of  different programs offered by a private higher education institution located in the State of Bahia. With respect to the dimension of self-efficacy, the results indicated that the belief of students was moderate and that these beliefs were significantly associated with the personal factors of sex, marital status, work, number of children and age. Self-efficiency was a predictor of five dimensions of academic adjustment (career, interpersonal, institutional, and personal). As for the academic adjustment of students, the findings emphasized the dimension of career, in relation to other factors. The personal dimension was the one that least influenced the process. The results also revealed significant associations between student adjustment and personal factors (sex, ethnicity, number of chidren, marital status, place of residence, age, and family income) as well as with academic factors (benefits from Prouni, Fies, Educa Mais or from the IES of study; study shift; and hours of study per week). With regard to academic performance, of the five study disciplinary areas analysed, only that of collective health was significantly correlated with the interpersonal and academic adjustment dimensions.Significant associations were not encountered between performance and personal and academic factors. The analysis of networks and graphs indicated self-efficacy as the most powerful of the factors investigated, serving to interconnect the adjustment and academic performance dimensions. As a contribution, the study serves to amplify knowledge about self-efficacy, academic adjustment and academic performance within the context of private higher education in Brazil. It also promotes discussion as to what academic, pedagogical and psychosocial actions may fortify self-efficacy as an instrument for promoting student adjustment and performance. Moreover, the study makes important methodological contributions for the fields of education and educational psychology, as it introduces the analysis of networks and graphs as an additional means for understanding the relations between the variables investigated. 

 

 


BANKING MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - RODOLFO AUGUSTO MATTEO AMBIEL - PUC-CAMPINAS
Externa à Instituição - NADIA HAGE FIALHO - UNEB
Externo ao Programa - 2361772 - ADRIANO DE LEMOS ALVES PEIXOTO
Externa à Instituição - CARLA LIANE NASCIMENTO DOS SANTOS - UNEB
Externa à Instituição - DORA LEAL ROSA - UFBA
Presidente - 124.358.565-04 - ROBERT EVAN VERHINE - UFBA
Notícia cadastrada em: 23/09/2022 13:08
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