Exploring the Influence of Academic Self-Efficacy, Engagement, and Test Anxiety on Students’ Success at Exam

Valentina Iuliana Manea (), Tudor Macavei () and Costin Pribeanu ()

Informatica Economica, 2024, vol. 28, issue 4, 35-44

Abstract: Academic self-efficacy and engagement are closely related to successful results in exams. On the other hand, test anxiety may negatively affect students’ success. The negative effects of test anxiety are stronger at exams in fundamental disciplines, like mechanics for civil engineering students. In this case, passing the exam may be difficult and require a three-step trial. This re-search explores the relationship between success at exams and the students’ perceptions as re-gards their academic self-efficacy, learning engagement, and test anxiety. The approach is based on a comparison between students’ perceptions and multiple regression analysis. The findings show that students who passed this exam reported higher self-efficacy and engage-ment, and lower test anxiety. The regression analysis revealed that keeping up with academic work, getting involved in class discussions, and nervousness during the exam were the main predictors of test results. Gender analysis showed that male students reported higher involve-ment in class discussions and female students reported more time spent on their studies.

Keywords: Academic self-efficacy; Student engagement; Test anxiety; Engineering students; Gender analysis; Exam; Mechanics; Civil engineering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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