Self-efficacy and Students’ Academic Performance: Examining Gender Differences at Higher Secondary Level

Abstract

This research aims to explore gender differences in self-efficacy and its relationship with students' educational performance. Self-efficacy is an individual's faith to achieve an objective or accomplish a level of performance within a given situation. Self-efficacy in academics is an essential indicator of success at higher secondary level study success. A better transformation to the university will experience students at the end of their secondary education by high academic self-efficacy. The study was descriptive, and survey design was used. Students studying in 12 th class in public sector higher secondary schools served as a population for this study. A questionnaire was designed as a data collection tool for obtaining information from a sample consisting of 1507 students from 18 higher secondary institutions of nine districts of Punjab. Results showed that male science students feel more confident about their success in the final output as compared to female science students studying at the higher secondary level. Gender difference in self-efficacy was a significant reason which affects their academic performance.

Word-Wall Education Game to Enhance Literacy Skills in Elementary Schools

“…Therefore, this research proposes combining traditional models with interactive methods such as the Word Wall Game to create a more comprehensive and motivating literacy experience for students. This is in line with the findings of Obaid Ullah & Mohammad Iqbal (2020) (Fox Wilker & Funk, 2008a;Obaid Ullah & Saira Nudrat, 2021); which show that modern teaching methods with word-wall games can improve student performance in the experimental group (Putri & Zulherman, 2022b;To'lqinova Diyora & Mohinakhon, 2022).…”

“…The Indonesian government has issued several literacy policies to improve people's literacy skills, especially among children and teenagers. Some of the government's literacy policies include the National Literacy Movement (GLN) (Desi, 2019;Setyowati & Sari Lubis, 2020), Literacy Education in Schools, Increasing Access to Reading Materials, and Forming Literacy Communities (Obaid Ullah & Saira Nudrat, 2021;Rosier, 2015). It is hoped that with these policies, the literacy skills of the Indonesian people will increase and they will be able to compete in an increasingly complex and connected era of globalization (Nugraha & Octavianah, 2020).…”