The Influence of Pad Class on the Academic Self-efficacy of College Students

DOI

10.2991/cesses-19.2019.117How to use a DOI?

Keywords

pad class; academic self-efficacy; personality psychology

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of pad class on college students' academic self-efficacy, and to analyze the differences of different types of students in their changes. Methods: the pad class was applied in the personality psychology course. Before and after the course, 62 students of applied psychology were surveyed with academic self-efficacy scale. Results: firstly, in the total efficacy and learning behavior, the post-test score was significantly higher than the pre-test. There was no significant difference in the learning ability between the post-test and the pre-test. Secondly, there was no significant difference between the male students and female students in the pre-test. In the post-test, the total efficacy of the male students and their scores in both dimensions were significantly higher than that of the female students; the total efficacy of the male students and their scores of the two dimensions in the post-test were significantly higher than those in the pre-test, and the female students' total efficacy score was significantly higher in the post-test than in the pre-test; thirdly, in the pre-test and post-test, there was no significant difference in the total efficacy between introversion and extroversion or between urban and rural students; the post-test scores of introverted and rural students in learning behavior and total efficacy were significantly higher than those in the pre-test, while the post-test scores of extroverted students in learning ability and total efficacy were significantly higher than those in the pre-test, and there was no significant difference of pre-test and post-test between urban and rural students. Conclusion: the pad class helps to improve the academic self-efficacy of college students, and there are different changes in the different categories of gender, personality characteristics and source.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yueliang Jia
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