Academic Self-Efficacy as A Predictor of Academic Achievement Among Form Two Students in Subukia Subcounty, Nakuru County, Kenya
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https://doi.org/10.53819/81018102t2537Abstract
The academic achievement is one of the main goals of education and students are likely to be worried if their academic achievement is declining. In Kenya, this is a common phenomenon not only in national exams but also in internal exams particularly among form two students. Several factors have been attributed to decline in academic achievement but less focus has been directed to academic self-efficacy as a predictor of students’ academic achievement. Thus, the paper examined academic self-efficacy as a predictor of academic achievement of form two students in public secondary schools in Subukia Sub County, Nakuru County. The specific objective was to establish the relationship between academic self-efficacy and academic achievement of form two students as moderated by students’ gender. Bandura’s Self-Efficacy Theory of Learning formed the theoretical framework and the correlational design was employed to determine the probable relationship among the study variables. Descriptive statistics including means and standard deviations were used to describe the quantitative data while correlation analysis (r) and regression analysis (R) were used to establish the relationship between the study variables and the predictive value of academic self-efficacy. The results showed that academic self-efficacy was positively correlated to academic achievement (r=0.731, p<0.05). There was also a significant influence of students’ gender in the relationship between academic self-efficacy and academic achievement. The study has highlighted the need for the educational stakeholders to create a favourable learning environment that can promote students’ need to succeed in their academic work. Hence, the findings may help the school administration to design learning environment which promotes students’ academic achievement.
Key words: Academic Achievement, Gender, Academic Self-Efficacy, Form Two Students, Subukia Subcounty, Nakuru County.
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