Writing Self-efficacy Final Draft Jammie Garcia LBS 355 Paper #5 December 6, 2010Writing Self-efficacy 1 Lave le Cinducted fasaveh and ‘This article is about the resea arch that Eller Lavelle conducted. She hea found that the main factor that affects peoples writing is themselves. The way doe WW a tual _person who concluded this study is Ellen Lavell: She did this study after an im gvdarat sot 5 |. intensive study of peoplds! opinions of their writing and their writing ability as woe Tl Wonk 4 uJ “| |x faded by two rubrics Thor wf o itt When it comes to writing, sometimes it’s really hard for some people to a) fo f me that you think you writs is not always the same as how you actually write. The ~ \ ~~ pas p { express how they really feel about a certain topic because they don't feel confident about themselves. This may be the reason why there is a Seoul tnt relationship between what a writer feels sf his or her writing and om & ‘e, pia | Aetually write! This was the main thing that Lavelle was trying to find out. She >) _ believes that somebody can change their wing performance simply by i Sate : Ou Ai ( “changing the way they think about their writing The study used students from a course in Educational Psychology. ‘These students were teachers from public and parochial schools in the area. The students were asked to write about what they read in class. It was their homework to make a reflection, usually consisting of up to 10 pages. These reflections were then taken and graded by two other graduate students who had been trained for this study. There were two different rubrics that were used for this study. One was a holistic rubric that looked at essay competenceWriting Self-efficacy 2 as a whole, and the other was a deep and surface rubric that could tell if a writer was making meaningful writing, or if they were only writing superficially The results showed that students who didn’t think their writing skills Yur were good generally scored lower. Also, it showed that these same students ))\ 4. are usually surface writers as opposed to deep writers. W Drew | think that this fits with the way | think of my own writing. | have never had a very high opinion of my own writing. So, | see that my writing scores are not usually the best. | hope that | can improve my confidence in my writing so that my overall writing performance will improve. a Npenpe hapa 5Writing Self-efficacy References, Lavelle, E. (2006). Teachers’ self-efficacy for writing. Electronic Journal of Reasearch in Education Psychology, 4(1), 73-84.