Students Intuition-Based Self-Efficacy and Evidence-Based Self-Efficacy towards Their Oral Presentation

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Author list: Wattananan, P.;Tepsuriwong, S.

Publication year: 2015

Journal: rEFLections (1513-5934)

Issue number: 20

Start page: 1

End page: 18

ISSN: 1513-5934

URL: http://sola.kmutt.ac.th/homesola/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/rEFLections-V.20.pdf

Abstract

Self-efficacy has a profound effect on learners’ performance, especially, in speakingskills and oral presentations as they require many more skills other than languageknowledge. This study aims to investigate students’ intuition-based and evidencebasedself-efficacy in oral presentations. The study was conducted with 24 subjects.They were asked to do a questionnaire and to report their intuition-based selfefficacyin their oral presentations. Later, the same questionnaire was used to ratetheir self-efficacy after the actual performance. The results showed that the levelsof intuition-based self-efficacy were significantly higher than that of evidence-basedself-efficacy in all three components of the presentation: language, delivery andorganization. Evidence from the students’ actual performance strongly affected theirself-efficacy suggesting that there is a bidirectional relationship between them andthat evidence plays important roles in improving students’ performance.

Keywords

self-efficacy, intuition-based self-efficacy, evidence-based self-efficacy, belief, oral presentation