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  • Educational Psychology
  • Academic Writing Research

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  • Writing self-efficacy is a well-researched area, but existing measures do not address the specific skill of integrating information from multiple sources.
  • Academic writing increasingly requires students to synthesize information from diverse sources, highlighting a gap in current self-efficacy assessments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To design and validate a new measurement tool, the Multiple-Source based Academic Self-Efficacy Scale (MAWSES), specifically for students' confidence in integrating information from multiple sources.
  • To address the need for a reliable and valid instrument to assess self-efficacy in a critical aspect of academic writing.

Main Methods:

  • Development of the Multiple-Source based Academic Self-Efficacy Scale (MAWSES).
  • Validation of the MAWSES using confirmatory factor analysis with Norwegian undergraduate students (n=136).
  • Examination of the scale's relationships with other relevant constructs to establish validity.

Main Results:

  • The study provided evidence for the reliability and validity of the MAWSES.
  • Confirmatory factor analysis supported the unitary construct of the MAWSES.
  • The scale effectively measures students' self-efficacy in integrating information from multiple sources.

Conclusions:

  • The MAWSES is a reliable and valid instrument for assessing students' self-efficacy in multiple-source integration for academic writing.
  • The MAWSES can be utilized in future research to predict writing outcomes, act as a moderator/mediator in intervention studies, or serve as an outcome measure.