Self-efficacy: toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.
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...Historically, social cognitive theorists (Bandura, 1977b; Rosenthal & Zimmerman, 1978; Zimmerman & Martinez- Pons, 1988) have distinguished knowledge acquisition from behavioral performance....
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...The latter finding is noteworthy because Bandura (1977a, 1986) theorized that social influences such as an adult model's performance and verbal persuasion can also change an individual's self-efficacy estimates....
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...In individual interest, the two phases include an emerging individual interest and well-developed individual interest (Renninger, 2000)....
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...It is also possible that her situational interest for facilitation was maintained by her identification with the details of what facilitators do (Hannover, 1998), her feelings of self-efficacy (Bandura, 1977; Zimmerman, 2000a, 2000b), and her sense of possibility (Markus & Nurius, 1986)....
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...In self-efficacy theory (Bandura, 1977, 1982, 1997; Zimmerman, 2000a, 2000b), an individual’s beliefs about his or her ability to produce successful outcomes and attain identified goals have been described as critical to increasing achievement motivation and performance....
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...In seeking a motivational explanation of exploratory and manipulative behavior, White (1959) postulated an "effectance motive," which is conceptualized as an intrinsic drive for transactions with the environment ....
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