2022 Volume 64 Issue 3 Pages 215-223
The purpose of this study is to grasp the actual situation of students' self-efficacy in materials processing learning of technology education. An open-ended questionnaire were obtained from 786 junior high school students. After the responses were collated and analyzed, students tended to express self-efficacy regarding actional information. In addition, an exploratory factor analysis was conducted. The self-efficacy scale in learning materials processing (5 factors and 20 items, Factor names: stimulation of interest, increase self-evaluation, outlook for activities, collaboration, failure and anxiety) was developed to examine students' perceptions of different production subjects. As the result of the differences in production materials, there were differences in the mean values for the three factors of “stimulation of interest", “increase self-evaluation", and “outlook for activities".
