Academic Self-efficacy in Education: Nature, Assessment, and Research

Part 1: Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Influence of Academic Self-efficacy Belief on Students' Achievement.- Part 2: Assessment and Measurement of Academic Self-Efficacy.- Chapter 2. Measuring Academic Self-Efficacy in Real-Time.- Chapter 3. Nurturing Learner Self-Efficacy Beliefs in STEM through Citizen Science: Theory, Assessment, and Applications.- Chapter 4. Assessment of Academic Self efficacy: Validity and Pragmatic uses of a Grid -Type Instrument .- Chapter 5. Psychometric Properties of the Spanish Translation of the Specific Academic Learning Self-Efficacy and the Specific Academic Exam Self-Efficacy Scales in a Higher Education Context.- Part 3: Empirical Studies on What Shape Academic Self-efficacy.- Chapter 6. Mathematics Self Efficacy: the dimensionality of the construct in the UK secondary and post-compulsory education population.- Chapter 7. What Shapes Academic Self-Efficacy?.- Chapter 8. Academic Self-Efficacy in a Globalized Era: Impacts of Culture and Cross-Culture.- Chapter 9. Children's self-efficacy in reading - specificity and longitudinal relations.- Chapter 10. Can Adaptive Learning Resources Boost Student Confidence? The Role of Adaptive Learning Resources in Shaping Self-Efficacy.- Chapter 10. Can Adaptive Learning Resources Boost Student Confidence? The Role of Adaptive Learning Resources in Shaping Self-Efficacy.- Chapter 11. Self-Efficacy in the Classroom: the Roles of Motivation, Positivity and Resilience ._ Chapter 11. Self-Efficacy in the Classroom: the Roles of Motivation, Positivity and Resilience .- Chapter 12. Promoting Online Student Persistence: Strategies to Promote Online Self-Efficacy ._ Part 4: Empirical Studies on the Influence of Academic Self-efficacy.- Chapter 13. Life satisfaction and engagement among university students: A moderated mediation model of academic self-efficacy and life orientation ._ Chapter 14. Relationship between Learning Environment and Academic Achievement: Mediating Role of Academic Self-efficacy ._ Chapter 15. The impact of academic self-efficacy on academic motivation: the mediating and moderating role of future orientation among Italian undergraduate students ._ Chapter 16. Academic Self-efficacy and its Influence on Teachers' Postgraduate Study Experiences: Voices from the Field.- Part 5: Concludion.- Chapter 17. Academic Self-efficacy in Educational Contexts: Current Research and Future Directions.