La presente investigación examina la relación existente entre autoeficacia, logro académico y estilo cognitivo de estudiantes de secundaria durante la interacción con un ambiente hipermedial para el aprendizaje de transformaciones geométricas en el plano bajo tres condiciones contrastadas: a) la presencia o ausencia de un andamiaje autorregulador en el software; b) el aprendizaje individual o en parejas y c) el estilo cognitivo en la dimensión de independencia-dependencia de campo. Participaron en el estudio 140 estudiantes de cuatro cursos del grado décimo de la institución educativa integrado de Soacha -Cundinamarca. La investigación tiene un diseño factorial 2x2x3, con grupos previamente conformados. Se realizó un análisis MANCOVA, el cual mostró efectos significativos sobre la autoeficacia y el logro académico, por la presencia del andamiaje y el trabajo en parejas. Palabras clave: Autoeficacia, logro académico, estilo cognitivo, ambiente hipermedia, andamiaje autorregulador, aprendizaje en parejas.

The causal role of students’ self-efficacy beliefs and academic goals in self-motivated academic attainment was studied using path analysis procedures. Parental goal setting and students’ self-efficacy and personal goals at the beginning of the semester served as predictors of students’ final course grades in social studies. In addition, their grades in a prior course in social studies were included in the analyses. A path model of four self-motivation variables and prior grades predicted students ‘final grades in social studies, R = .56. Students’ beliefs in their efficacy for self-regulated learning affected their perceived self-efficacy for academic achievement, which in turn influenced the academic goals they set for themselves and their final academic achievement. Students’ prior grades were predictive of their parents’ grade goals for them, which in turn were linked to the grade goals students set for themselves. These findings were interpreted in terms of the social cognitive theory of academic self-motivation.

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Using student interviews, teacher ratings, and achievement test outcomes, we validated a strategy model of student self-regulated learning as a theoretical construct. Forty-four male and 36 female high school students were asked to describe their use of 14 self-regulated learning strategies in six contexts, and their teachers rated these students for their self-regulated learning during class. Factor analyses of the teachers' ratings along with students' scores on a standardized test of mathematics and English revealed a single self-regulated learning factor that accounted for nearly 80% of the explained variance and two smaller factors that were labeled Student Verbal Expressiveness and Achievement. Students' reports of using self-regulated learning strategies during a structured interview correlated .70 with the obtained teachers' rating factor and were negatively related to the Student Verbal Expressiveness and Achievement Factors. Our results indicate both convergent and discriminative validity for a self-regulated learning construct.

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