Self-Efficacy, Attitude, Student Engagement: emphasising the role of affective learning attributes among engineering students

• Autores: Maizam Alias, Tahira Anwar Lashari, Zainal Abidin Akasah, Mohd Jahaya Kesot
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 34, no. 1, 2018, págs. 226-235
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The aim of the study is to investigate the relationships between the affective learning attributes and academic achievementamong engineering students. The affective learning attributes of interest were self-efficacy, attitude towards engineering,and student’s engagement. A survey was conducted on first year students from the engineering diploma programme in aMalaysia technical university. The survey was administrated to 382 voluntarily participating students (n = 382). Theaffective learning attributes were assessed using existing instruments namely the Self-efficacy and Study Skills Ques-tionnaire (SESS) for measuring self-efficacy, the Pittsburgh Freshman EngineeringAttitudes Scale (PFEAS) for measuringattitude towards engineering, and Student Engagement Instrument (SEI) for measuring student’s engagement. Academicachievement was assessed using the mid-term examination marks. To determine the associations among study variablescorrelational research design was used. The results showed a statistically significant positive correlation among the selectedpsychological variables and academic achievement scores under study. Attitude towards engineering and studentengagement seems to be an important factor in predicting academic achievement among engineering students.