Abstract
This research aims to explore gender differences in self-efficacy
and its relationship with students’ educational performance.
Self-efficacy is an individual’s faith to achieve an objective or
accomplish a level of performance within a given situation.
Self-efficacy in academics is an essential indicator of success at
higher secondary level study success. A better transformation
to the university will experience students at the end of their
secondary education by high academic self-efficacy. The study
was descriptive, and survey design was used. Students
studying in 12th class in public sector higher secondary schools
served as a population for this study. A questionnaire was
designed as a data collection tool for obtaining information
from a sample consisting of 1507 students from 18 higher
secondary institutions of nine districts of Punjab. Results
showed that male science students feel more confident about
their success in the final output as compared to female science
students studying at the higher secondary level. Gender
difference in self-efficacy was a significant reason which affects
their academic performance.
Nemat Ullah , Dr. Muhammad Yousaf. (2020) Self-efficacy and Students’ Academic Performance: Examining Gender Differences at Higher Secondary Level, Pakistan Social Sciences Review, Volume 4, Issue 1.
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