Students’ Self-Confidence and Its Impacts on Their Learning Process
Keywords:
Impacts, Learning, Measuring, Process, Self-Confidence.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to measure students’ self-confidence and finds its impacts on their learning process at Kandahar University. The study is descriptive in nature where quantitative questionnaire is used to collect data through stratified sampling from 1375 male and female students. The findings revealed only some of the students were low self-confident and most students were highly self-confident. In addition, students’ self-confidence effected their learning in areas of students’ participation, in seeking goal, developing interest in lessons, in decreasing students’ anxiety, they are being comfortable with their instructors and classmates and also in sharing their opinions related to lessons in class.
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Tripathy, M., & Srivastava, S. K. (2012). To Study the Effect of Academic Achievement on the Level of Self–confidence. International Journal of Yoga and Allied Sciences, 1(1), 33-45.
Tunçel, H. (2015). The Relationship between Self-Confidence and Learning Turkish as a Foreign Language. Educational Research and Reviews, 10(18), 2575-2589.
Verma, R. K., & Kumari, S., (2016). Effect of Self-Confidence on Academic Achievement of Children at Elementary Stage. Indian Journal of Reseach, 5(1) 81-83.
Wright, J. H. (2009). Building Self-confidence with Encouraging Words. West Central, Missoula: Artichoke Press.
Yashima, T., Zenuk‐Nishide, L., & Shimizu, K. (2004). The influence of attitudes and affect on willingness to communicate and second language communication. Language learning, 54(1), 119-152.
Atherton, M. (2015). Measuring confidence levels of male and female students in open access enabling courses. Issues in Educational Research, 25(2), 81-98.
Bauman, S. (2012). The importance of self-esteem in learning and behavior in children with exceptionalities and the role magic tricks may play in improving self-esteem and in motivating learning (Thesis of partial completion at college). http://stars.library.ucf.edu/honorstheses1990-2015/1344?utm_source=stars.library.ucf.edu%2Fhonorstheses1990-2015%2F1344&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages
Benabou, R., & Tirole, J. (2002). Self-confidence and personal motivation. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117(3), 871-915.
Busch, T. (1995). Gender differences in self-efficacy and attitudes toward computers. Journal of educational computing research, 12(2), 147-158.
Chemers, M. M., Hu, L. T., & Garcia, B. F. (2001). Academic self-efficacy and first year college student performance and adjustment. Journal of Educational psychology, 93(1), 55.
Clark, J., & Barber, B. L. (1994). Adolescents in postdivorce and always-married families: Self-esteem and perceptions of fathers' interest. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 608-614.
Colbeck, C. L., Cabrera, A. F., & Terenzini, P. T. (2001). Learning professional confidence: Linking teaching practices, students’ self-perceptions, and gender. The Review of Higher Education, 24(2), 173-191.
Creswell, J. W. (2012). Educational research: planning, Conducting, and Evaluating (4th ed.). Boylston Street, Boston: Pearson Education.
De Houwer, J., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Moors, A. (2013). What is learning? On the nature and merits of a functional definition of learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20(4), 631-642.
Djehiche, K. (2016). The Importance of Self-confidence in Enhancing Students’ Speaking Skill Case study: First Year LMD Students at Mohammad Kheider University of Biskra (Doctoral dissertation).
Fatma, F. (2015). A study of self-confidence of adolescents in relation to their gender, locality and academic achievement. IJAR, 1(12), 541-544.
Fischer, M., & Sliwka, D. (2018). Confidence in knowledge or confidence in the ability to learn: An experiment on the causal effects of beliefs on motivation. Games and Economic Behavior, 111, 122-142.
Gardner, D. G., Dukes, R. L., & Discenza, R. (1993). Computer use, self-confidence, and attitudes: A causal analysis. Computers in human behavior, 9(4), 427-440.
Jakobsson, A. (2006). Students’ self-confidence and learning through dialogues in a net-based environment. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 14(2), 387-405.
Jones, H. K. (2001). Academic Self-Confidence Scale: A Psychological Study in Two Parts. University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects s. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_chanhonoproj/472.
Karimi, A., & Saadatmand, Z. (2014). The relationship between self-confidence with achievement based on academic motivation. Kuwait Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review, 33(2579), 210-215.
Laird, T. F. N. (2005). College students’ experiences with diversity and their effects on academic self-confidence, social agency, and disposition toward critical thinking. Research in higher education, 46(4), 365-387.
Mahyuddin, R., Elias, H., Cheong, L. S., Muhamad, M. F., Noordin, N., & Abdullah, M. C. (2006). The relationship between students' self-efficacy and their English language achievement. Jurnal Pendidik dan Pendidikan, Jil, 21, 61-71.
Norman, M., & Hyland, T. (2003). The role of confidence in lifelong learning. Educational studies, 29(2-3), 261-272.
Nurmi, A., Hannula, M., Maijala, H., & Pehkonen, E. (2003). On Pupils' Self-Confidence in Mathematics: Gender Comparisons. International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 3, 453-460.
Pajares, F., & Johnson, M. J. (1994). Confidence and competence in writing: The role of self-efficacy, outcome expectancy, and apprehension. Research in the Teaching of English, 313-331.
Palavan, Ö. (2017). Impact of Drama Education on The Self-Confidence and Problem-Solving Skills of students of Primary School Education. Kastamonu Education Journal, 25(1).
Perkins, K. E. (2018). The Integrated Model of Self-Confidence: Defining and Operationalizing Self-Confidence in Organizational Settings (Doctoral dissertation). College of Psychology and Liberal Arts: Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida.
Prada Arango, H. (2015). Students’ self-confidence as a way to improve English oral Production in 10th grade students at Ricaurte school. (Mastering research project). University of Libre, Bogota.
Pulford, B. D., & Sohal, H. (2006). The influence of personality on HE students’ confidence in their academic abilities. Personality and Individual Differences, 41(8), 1409-1419.
Puzziferro, Maria. "Online technologies self-efficacy and self-regulated learning as predictors of final grade and satisfaction in college-level online courses." The Amer. Jrnl. of Distance Education 22, no. 2 (2008): 72-89.
Rubio, R. A. (2007). Self-esteem and foreign language learning. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 15 Angerton Gardens, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Sander, P., & Sanders, L. (2003). Measuring confidence in academic study: a summary report. University of Wales Institute: Cardiff U. K.
Şar, A. H., Avcu, R., & Işıklar, A. (2010). Analyzing undergraduate students’ self-confidence levels in terms of some variables. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 5, 1205-1209.
Sihotang, L., Setiawan, D. & Saragi, D. (2017). The Effect of Learning Strategy and Self -Confidence Toward Student’s Learning Outcomes in Elementary School. IOSR Journal of Research & Method in Education. 7(4), 65-72.
Taylor, G. R., & MacKenney, L. (2008). Improving human learning in the classroom: Theories and teaching practices. R&L Education.
Tridinanti, G. (2018). The Correlation between Speaking Anxiety, Self-Confidence, and Speaking Achievement of Undergraduate EFL Students of Private University in Palembang. International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 6(4), 35-39.
Tripathy, M., & Srivastava, S. K. (2012). To Study the Effect of Academic Achievement on the Level of Self–confidence. International Journal of Yoga and Allied Sciences, 1(1), 33-45.
Tunçel, H. (2015). The Relationship between Self-Confidence and Learning Turkish as a Foreign Language. Educational Research and Reviews, 10(18), 2575-2589.
Verma, R. K., & Kumari, S., (2016). Effect of Self-Confidence on Academic Achievement of Children at Elementary Stage. Indian Journal of Reseach, 5(1) 81-83.
Wright, J. H. (2009). Building Self-confidence with Encouraging Words. West Central, Missoula: Artichoke Press.
Yashima, T., Zenuk‐Nishide, L., & Shimizu, K. (2004). The influence of attitudes and affect on willingness to communicate and second language communication. Language learning, 54(1), 119-152.
Published
2020-01-22
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Akbari, O., & Sahibzada, J. (2020). Students’ Self-Confidence and Its Impacts on Their Learning Process. American International Journal of Social Science Research, 5(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.46281/aijssr.v5i1.462
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