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The influence of task difficulty on engagement, performance and self-efficacy
Date
2018
Abstract
My research examined the impact of a person’s belief about their own capabilities and how this influences their performance. In order to examine this I needed a task that was both relatively enjoyable, so that participants would engage with it in their own free time without pressure to do so, and a task that was not heavily linked to a particular subject as this would influence performance. That is the line of thinking that led to a PhD examining self-efficacy theory by getting hundreds of children to play Pacman, a popular arcade game
Supervisor
Description
peer-reviewed
Publisher
Springer
Citation
Explorations in Technology Education Research:Helping Teachers Develop Research Informed Practice, Williams, John P & Barlex, David (eds);pp. 157-169