Self Efficacy Paper

The first primary goal of this project was to determine student self efficacy with the use of a school issued iPad as a learning tool. An quantitative survey was developed using the constructs of Albert Bandura’s (1993) study of Perceived Self Efficacy in Cognitive Development and Functioning. Those constructs were made up of four categories of self efficacy: Mastery experience, Social persuasion, Psychological state, and Vicarious experience. This project also wanted to determine if there was a relationship with student self efficacy with an iPad and the student’s learning outcome.
Previous literature using Bandura’s (1993) Perceived Self Efficacy indicated that self efficacy does a have a correlation with learning outcome. One such study completed by

However, the new models did point out a gender difference between self efficacy and student learning outcomes. Male students have shown no relationship with mastery experience with an iPad and learning outcome, while female students showed a positive relationship between mastery experience with an iPad and learning outcome. This data has shown us that how male and female 7th grade students view iPads as an learning tool very differently. More than anything, this difference in relationships between student genders reminds us how differently, male and female students really are in middle school. As each student enters adolescents there is an unconscious effort to be different from one and each other. Ultimately, each gender is affected differently by the use of iPads as a learning tool. With such differences in the way male and female students perceive the use of the iPad. We might question how we differentiate the use of iPad between the two genders. Future research might want to concentrate on differences of student gender in helping us identify how to better differentiate instruction with the use of