Perceived Self-Efficacy and Its Relationship with Motivation to Learn among Middle School Students

Abstract

The present research aims to identify perceived self- efficacy and its relationship to learn among high school students in the center of Al-Qadisiyah Governorate, in light of the variables of gender and  class . The research sample consisted of (400) male and female students that were chosen using the random stratified method in the center of Al- Qadisiyah Governorate for the academic year 2022- 2023 .

A measure of perceived self – efficacy was adopted . This measure consisted in its final form , after verifying its psychometric characteristics (honesty , stability , discriminatory power ). Of 37 items . In addition , another measure of motivation to learn was adapted too . This measure consisted of 35 items , after verifying its psychometric characteristics ( honesty , persistence , and discriminatory power ). After collecting the data and processing it statistically using the appropriate statistical Bag for social Sciences ( spss) ,the research reached at the following results :

1-The emergence of perceived self – efficacy among the research sample, high school students .

2-The existence of learning motivation among the research sample , high school students .

3-There are no statistically significant differences in the perceived self – efficacy variable according to the gender variable ( male , female ).

4- There are no statistically significant differences in the variable of perceived learning motivation according to the gender variable ( male , female).

5- There are statistically significant differences in the variable of perceived self – efficacy according to the grade variable ( fourth , fifth)and in favor of the fourth grade students .

6- There are statistically significant differences in the perceived self – efficacy variable in the interaction between the variables of gender and grade . The interaction was  between ( fourth grade males and fifth grade males  ) and was in favor of fourth grade males .

7- There are statistically significant differences in the learning motivation variable according to the grade variable ( fourth , fifth)and in favor of fourth grade students .

8-There are is a positive , statistically significant correlation between the variable of perceived  self – efficacy and  motivation to learn among high school students in the center of Al- Qadisiyah Governorate