The impact of performance-based assessment strategies on pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy and academic achievement in general physics

Abstract

A quasi-experimental research design was conducted to investigate the impact of performance-based assessment (PBA) on pre-service teachers’ (PSTs) self-efficacy and academic achievement in general physics at Atebubu College of Education. The study was conducted on 144 primary education students in the second year who were assigned into experimental and control groups after conducting a pre-test. 72 students each were non-randomly assigned into the experimental and control group. Information on PSTs’ self-efficacy was derived by administering pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy scale whiles the academic achievement was determined by general physics achievement test. Statistical package for social sciences was used to analyze data to generate descriptive and inferential statistics. The self-efficacy of the experimental group and control group differed significantly after treatment. The experimental group had significantly higher post-test scores than the control group. This study identified PBA as a useful teaching strategy that improves PSTs’ problem-solving abilities and boosts their confidence in studying general physics.

The role of self-efficacy, motivation, and perceived support of students' basic psychological needs in academic achievement

“…It is one of several positively correlated agentic processes that are predictive of academic achievement (Code, 2020). Academic self-efficacy is associated with academic performance in reading literacy (Yang et al, 2018;Ocak and Tiraki, 2020;Zysberg and Schwabsky, 2021;Zorlu and Ünver, 2022), mathematics (Kitsantas et al, 2011;Xu and Qi, 2019;Ugwuanyi, 2020;Zysberg and Schwabsky, 2021;Er et al, 2022;Kontaş and Özcan, 2022;Muhtadi et al, 2022), and the sciences (Aurah, 2017;Oyelekan et al, 2019;Gao et al, 2020;Adjei et al, 2023;Dever, 2024) and is positively associated with overall academic achievement (Asakereh and Yousofi, 2018;Akturk and Ozturk, 2019;Olivier et al, 2019;Usher et al, 2019;Zysberg and Schwabsky, 2021;Luo et al, 2023;Salvo-Garrido et al, 2023;Al-khresheh and Alkursheh, 2024;Bozzato, 2024).…”