Students’ Self-efficacy role in Academics

Abstract

The personal belief of the students in their ability to arrange and execute the amount of effort and performance to succeed in subjects is self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is the trigger of life success. Is self-efficacy playing any role in students’ academic success? is the concern area of this study. The data were gathered from 488 learners of Government Higher Secondary Schools for Boys with the help of 19 items self-efficacy questionnaire. The data was analysed by product-moment correlation coefficient to know linear association
between two variables. The research concluded that self-efficacy and scholastic performance were not correlated with one another. This may be due to non-awareness of students regarding self-efficacy role in their lives. Recommendations were drawn to enhance self-efficacy for students’ motivation and success in their career.