A Research on the Relationship between Self-efficacy and Study Performance of College Students
The Self-efficacy of the college students is the confidence level of an individual in a particular situation when carrying out a certain activity.It is a kind of expectation,perception and confidence of an individual when he succeeds in carrying out and achieving a specific goal.It is an intermediate motive factor between motivation and activity.It has become a hot topic of today's psychology.This paper examines the relationship between the self-efficacy level and the study performance of 85 college students.The results indicates:(1)the different self-efficacy is quite clear among the college students with different study performance.The self-efficacy of the excellent group is much higher than the worse one.(2)the difference of the self-efficacy among different genders and different majors is not quite clear.
The efficiency of working memory capacity was measured with the Japanese reading span test (Japanese RST), which was developed based on the Carnegie-Mellon RST (Daneman & Carpenter, 1980). The correlation between the Japanese and the CMU RST was found to be highly significant. The present Japanese RST seems to predict reading efficiency in the same way as does the CMU RST. The Japanese RST was found to be correlated not only with memory span but with reading comprehension. However, it was not correlated with existing verbal intelligence tests.