'I can succeed at this': engagement in service learning in schools enhances university students' self-efficacy

In-Albon, T (通讯作者),Univ Koblenz Landau, Clin Child & Adolescent Psychol & Psychotherapy, Landau, Germany.
2022-12-2
Engaging in service learning has been linked to multiple positive outcomes in students, such as an increase in self-efficacy. Effects have been found on both general and domain-specific self-efficacy. Research on service learning has indicated that feedback and gender had an impact on the increase in self-efficacy, though findings are mixed. The present study aimed to determine how service learning experiences at a university can be optimally designed to boost college students' self-efficacy, while examining the effects of feedback and gender on general and teaching self-efficacy. Over 2 years, 267 bachelor's students in psychology (M-age = 23.08 years, SD = 3.61; 80.5% female) conducted modularized prevention programs in the context of mental health at primary and secondary schools. Students rated their general and teaching self-efficacy before (T1), during (T2), and after (T3) conducting the program. The results indicate a positive effect of engaging in service learning on students' general (d = 0.30) and teaching (d = 0.68) self-efficacy from T1 to T3 with significant increases only in female students, and after receiving feedback. Engaging in service learning reduced gender-specific differences in self-efficacy. Feedback increased general and teaching self-efficacy. Female students seemed to benefit more than male students.
STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION
卷号:47|期号:12|页码:2539-2552
ISSN:0307-5079|收录类别:SSCI
语种
英语
来源机构
University of Koblenz & Landau
被引频次(WOS)
0
被引频次(其他)
0
180天使用计数
12
2013以来使用计数
15
EISSN
1470-174X
出版年
2022-12-2
DOI
10.1080/03075079.2022.2091126
WOS学科分类
Education & Educational Research
学科领域
循证教育学
关键词
Service learning self-efficacy university students feedback teaching self-efficacy