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Effects of self-efficacy on students' behavior

29 December, 2015 - 14:38
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Self-efficacy may sound like a uniformly desirable quality, but research as well as teachers' experience suggests that its effects are a bit more complicated than they first appear. Self-efficacy has three main effects, each of which has both a negative or undesirable side and a positive or desirable side.