Assess The Importance Of Self-Efficacy In The Classroom

Bandura (1977) found that in addition to diminishing proneness to aversive arousal, such approaches also teach effective coping skills by demonstrating proficient ways of handling threatening situations. The learner’s expectation of being able to handle the stress may further increase self-efficacy. Those who come to believe that they are less vulnerable than they previously assumed are less prone to generate frightening thoughts in threatening situations. Those whose fears are relatively weak may reduce their self-doubts and debilitate self-arousal to the point where they perform successfully. Performance successes, in turn, strengthen self-efficacy (Bandura, 1977). An additional important factor for educators to consider when designing a lesson is the reality of the scenario being played out in the simulation exercise. Bandura (1977) found that any enhancements in a learner’s perceived self-efficacy would not last if they felt that the imagery is not likely to translate to accomplishments in reality. Learners also have to believe that it was their skill that brought them to success, rather than circumstances that randomly brought them …show more content…
This statement essentially aligns with Bandura’s (1975) findings that lasting changes in self-efficacy and behavior can best be achieved by participant methods using powerful induction procedures initially to develop capabilities, then removing external aids to verify personal efficacy, then finally using self-directed mastery to strengthen and generalize expectations of personal